Campesino

All you want to know about Campesino

Campesino may refer to:

The arts
People
  • "El Campesino" - Valentín González, a military leader during the Spanish Civil War.
  • campesinos - Mexican farm workers who participated in the Bracero Program during World War II in the United States.
Politics

Etymology

Campesino is a Spanish language term referring to a farmer or farmworker. A possible English language equivalent term is peasant, with connotations of subsistence or simple farming that aims to survive rather than generate a profit.[1] In the Spanish-speaking world, many people referred to as campesinos survive using subsistence farming, as in other parts of the world.

The term guajiro, which is American Spanish for "rustic,"[2] is a synonym for campesino in Cuba,[3] where it is also related to Guajira (music).

References

  1. ^ "Campesino" Diccionario de la Real Academia Española, 22nd edition.
  2. ^ The New World Spanish/English English/Spanish dictionary. New American Library, 1968, p. 264: “guajiro (gwa'xi·ro) n.m. & adj. Amer. rustic.”
  3. ^ José Barreiro (1989). ""Indians in Cuba."" (html). Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 56-60. "The term guajiro is synonymous in Cuba with campesino or countryman-peasant."
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