Peasant
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You can deplore such social feelings, as I do, but the myth of the Polish
peasant
hero standing against communist collectivization on his small private plot seems ineradicable, even if it is undeserved.
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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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