Word: peasant
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MEMORIES OF THE VIETNAM War, for those who did not serve in it, tend to be drawn from the image bank of television footage: a U.S. soldier applying a Zippo lighter to a peasant hut; a Saigon official shooting, on camera, a suspected Viet Cong terrorist through the head. But before the war escalated into a staple item on the nightly news, a much smaller conflict had played itself out in South Vietnam. This one pitted U.S. military brass and members of the Kennedy Administration against a small group of young print reporters assigned to cover a communist guerrilla insurrection...
WuDunn told the story of one difficult reporting trip where she was trying to write a story about the plight of the peasant...
...thought I'd try to interview a really poor peasant," she said. "I got to the capital [of a poor province] and met local officials...
After picking up village officials as well, WuDunn said she was taken to the home of a "peasant", "with a shiny new motorcycle out front of a big house with a lot of space...
...China I'd never seen before," she said, describing a hut a family shared with a pig and a peasant too poor to clothe his own children...