Video Response Worksheet
“The Harvest/La Cosecha: The Children Who Feed America”
e. Cultural Relativism/p. 37: Not judging a culture but trying to understand it on its own terms. (Henslin 37)
There is a significant lack of cultural relativism towards the migrant families in the film. For instance, 14-year old, Perla Sanchez explains how others outside their subculture label them as “stupid” and look down on them because they’re poor. She continues, saying that despite being born in America, making her a U.S. citizen, people see her brown skin and tell her to “go back to Mexico, where you belong.” The corporations and businesses that hire the traveling migrant workers provide housing for them and their families that are deplorable. Something