Peasant
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The drivers of both the tractor and the metallic-silver luxury car were 45-year-old women, but any similarity between them ended there: the former was a
peasant
, the latter the wife of a wealthy businessman.
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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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