Do you understand the concept of being a peasant?

A peasant is a poor person of low social status who works on the land; used to refer to people who live in countries where farming is still a common way of life. ... the peasants in the Peruvian highlands.

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DrWatson · 70-79, M

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 .