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In The Broken Village: Coffee, Migration, and Globalization in Honduras the author, Daniel R. Reichman, explains what he personally experienced from his visits and experiences while in La Quebrada, Honduras. Daniel R. Reichman is a current Associate Professor and the Chair of Anthropology at the University of Rochester in New York, New York. His main emphasis is studying how the culture changes during different economic periods. This book, The Broken Village, focuses on La Quebrada during the time in which coffee made the most revenue versus the time when the citizens of La Quebrada focused on migration to the United State of America to make money to support their families.
The coffee economy was once very strong. Reichman (p. 47) describes …show more content…
While in America, the male migrants typically wash dishes and are janitors for their work (Reichman p. 37). Migrating also has many stereotypes; Hondurans who have never been to America believe that the migrants are lazy. They believe that they do little work, and they get paid lots of money for it. Therefore, when the migrant cannot afford to send home remittances at any point in their stay, the migrant is assumed to be not working hard enough (Reichman p. 54). Reichman (p. 54) quotes the owner of the Internet café (Internet Los Catrachos) in La Quebrada as saying, “People will say that is no work. So they don’t have to send money. That’s for sure.” They also are believed to be spending their money on gambling, drugs, alcohol, or extramarital affairs. Many families and wives worry when sending they husbands away. They worry about other women. Hondurans believe many Americans are alcoholics, and worry the migrants may become the same. These are only stereotypes, but the migrants do not bother to correct the villagers. The migrants know the villagers are too hard headed and stuck in their …show more content…
Tony, as Reichman (p. 135) refers to him, sells the coffee his workers have grown in Honduras on his farm, of which he has exported himself. The rumor spreads that he has made millions while selling his coffee at the John F. Kennedy International Airport in Queens, New York. This is far from the truth. Tony sells his product for just over one dollar in the cargo area of the airport. He barely breaks even most years, but he loves his job. He wishes to open a stand in the main area of the airport, but he is denied because he is not a part of a big restaurant chain (Reichman p. 137), such as Starbucks, who often sells their coffees for five to seven dollars a

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