Peasant
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Since Chinese is the language of instruction at Tibetan schools and universities, anyone who wishes to be more than a poor
peasant
, beggar, or seller of trinkets must conform to Chinese norms, that is, become Chinese.
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"The Good Earth" is about Chinese
peasant
life.
Finally, my father, an Algerian
peasant'
s son turned professor, was forced to stop teaching at the university and to flee his apartment, but what I will never forget about Mahfoud Bennoune, my dad, was that like so many other Algerian intellectuals, he refused to leave the country and he continued to publish pointed criticisms, both of the fundamentalists and sometimes of the government they battled.
Remember the Zapatistas, the
peasant
uprising in the southern Chiapas region of Mexico led by the masked, pipe-smoking, charismatic Subcomandante Marcos?
We seem to be fixated on this romanticized idea that every poor
peasant
in Africa is an entrepreneur.
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