Do you understand the concept of being a peasant?

My mother was a peasant in a poor village in Italy, until she came to the US at age 12 in 1934.

She eventually wrote a memoir of her childhood memories.

It is not romanticized. People were poor and death was all around .

That's a rather large ground bird with cute tail feathers that people hunt 🤔

How do I know what I understand is in accordance to what you think is correct understanding?

Commonly accepted definition: a person who owns or rents a small piece of land on which he/she grows food and keeps animals in order to feed his/her family

Somewhere. My father was an orphan, and my best friend a child from gypsies, owning a carnival and being left on their own. Those stories mirror sometimes. I'd say they understand a kind of humility many of us lack now.

A step up from a serf, I guess. Not sure where peon fits in, though.

not in terms of food shelter and WWW access