what is 'peasant mentality'?

lufties

I've been seeing this phrase crop up here and there but am not sure what it means. To hazard a guess I would say the mentality of 'don't get above your station' and generally a narrow minded ignorant view of the world, without the power to be able to think critically.

Molester Stallone II

lufties wrote: »

I've been seeing this phrase crop up here and there but am not sure what it means. To hazard a guess I would say the mentality of 'don't get above your station' and generally a narrow minded ignorant view of the world, without the power to be able to think critically.

i.e.
AH regulars?

lufties

I wrote peasant mentality not deluded holier than thous

DEFTLEFTHAND

A northern Italian from Milan or Turin could call somebody from the southern regions, Sicily etc a peasant or even a slur like guinea! The brown eyes, dark hair and swarthy (tanned complexion)

Every nation has it's own version of peasants, in Ireland you have travellers and nordies.

magick

You own a console

The Backwards Man

It seems someone didn't get a kiss from the pretty little from Omagh last night

Tipsy McSwagger

You don't recognise the PC as the superior gaming platform.

qt3.14

lufties wrote: »

I've been seeing this phrase crop up here and there but am not sure what it means. To hazard a guess I would say the mentality of 'don't get above your station' and generally a narrow minded ignorant view of the world, without the power to be able to think critically.

That and a bit of obsequeisness around anyone with a whiff of power. Tugging the forelock etc

Cantremember

qt3.14 wrote: »

Tugging the forelock etc

Thinly disguised fapping thread. First of 2015. Well done AH.









I do actually know what a forelock is.

WHAT A PEASANT KIND OF QUESTION TO ASK

I duno I'd have to see it in context to see what they meant

some kind of put down anyway I guess

Dirty Steve

Phrases like that are meant to keep people in their place.

Those to be kept in their place are less likely to rise up.

the dark phantom

lufties wrote: »

I've been seeing this phrase crop up here and there but am not sure what it means. To hazard a guess I would say the mentality of 'don't get above your station' and generally a narrow minded ignorant view of the world, without the power to be able to think critically.

A good read of the "What's so great about Australia ?" thread should answer your question.

tayto lover

Someone who continually tries to castigate people from a certain area would have a "peasant mentality" in my opinion. People from that area seem to be always on his mind and he obviously feels threatened or inferior to them.

Moffett

Factory floor banter, ' I could never be a manager, I like to go home and switch off....' as if your manager doesn't, only difference is they're on 80k a year! Always the hardest working folk that say it too?

looksee

I'd say a peasant mentality is not so much someone who is put down as someone who does not want to lift himself up. Its easier to sit in the mud and whinge about the unfairness of life.

Birneybau

Well, if you have to ask...

peasant

none of your business, that's what it is ...

Jawgap

anti-intellectual......fearful of change......parochial......


......owns a huge TV (with Sky sports and Sky movies in HD) and a PS4 with XBox

Turtwig

The mentality shared by anyone who's not a moderator or admin on boards.

sheesh

no pheasant jokes? I am dissapoint AH.

sort of salt of the earth 'tis far from the like of that ye were reared'

Oink

For me the word "peasant" refers to a state of mind. For example someone who:
-showers every 3 days
-doesn't wash his hands in the jacks "because he's clean down there"
- doesnt consider leaving his seat on the bus to old people

So generally, people who have the august demeanour of the animals they are most likely descended from, and have intimate knowledge of.

One eyed Jack

Molester Stallone II wrote: »

i.e.
AH regulars?

lufties wrote: »

I wrote peasant mentality not deluded holier than thous

Epitome of the peasant mentality right there - someone who wants to be respected for their perceived superiority, but laments the fact that nobody else recognises their apparent genius intellect.

Tail Docker

Puh, and there's me thinking it's someone who enjoys a good organic Camembert with Three-seed bread and a bottle of earthy Rioja...while siting at their reclaimed French farmers table, reading Country Living..in Hampstead.

For Forks Sake

sheesh wrote: »

no pheasant jokes? I am dissapoint AH.

sort of salt of the earth 'tis far from the like of that ye were reared'

I'd love some pheasant. Where's me shotgun?

MJ23

Coronation Street recently. A few of them hadn't been paid. One of them was going to be evicted the next day as he didn't have rent. But yet, is in the Rovers every night of the week. I know it's not real, but there are people like that. Living from hand to mouth, with no clue how to budget. The kids go hungry, but they have the newest Nike Airmax, and they more than likely have a football jersey on too, and have a TV like a cinema screen screen in a two bedroomed house.

Jawgap

For Forks Sake wrote: »

I'd love some pheasant. Where's me shotgun?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk47saogI8o

AdFundum

Peasant quality/mentality - once used often in Irish literary circles especially during the revival led by Yeats and Gregory - my four green fields, the playboy, sean bhean bhocht and all that.

It's a romantic notion of illiterate savage turns poet - think Patrick Kavanagh or Rousseau.

One eyed Jack

AdFundum wrote: »

Peasant quality/mentality - once used often in Irish literary circles especially during the revival led by Yeats and Gregory - my four green fields, the playboy, sean bhean bhocht and all that.

It's a romantic notion of illiterate savage turns poet - think Patrick Kavanagh or Rousseau.

"Stony grey soil" immediately springs to mind as a very apt example of the peasant mentality -



Stony Grey Soil - Patrick Kavanagh




O stony grey soil of Monaghan
The laugh from my love you thieved;
You took the the gay child of my passion
And gave me your clod-conceived.

You clogged the feet of my boyhood
And I believed that my stumble
Had the poise and stride of Apollo
And his voice my thick-tongued mumble.

You told me the plough was immortal!
O green-life-conquering plough!
Your mandril strained, your coulter blunted
In the smooth lea-field of my brow.

You sang on steaming dunghills
A song of coward's brood,
You perfumed my clothes with weasel itch,
You fed me on swinish food.

You flung a ditch on my vision
Of beauty, love and truth.
O stony grey soil of Monaghan
You burgled my bank of youth!

Lost the long hours of pleasure
All the women that love young men.
O can I still stroke the monster's back
Or write with unpoisened pen

His name in these lonely verses
Or mention the dark fields where
The first gay flight of my lyric
Got caught in a peasant's prayer.

Mullahinsha, Drummeril, Black Shanco -
Wherever I turn I see
In the stony grey soil of Monaghan
Dead loves that were born for me.


Christ he was one bitter bastard

anncoates

It's often what you call people- that are 'trapped ' in the 'hellhole' of Ireland - that have the temerity to look bored about your 7 hour emigrant tales in the pub over Christmas.

Birneybau

sheesh wrote: »

no pheasant jokes? I am dissapoint AH.

sort of salt of the earth 'tis far from the like of that ye were reared'

Can't say pheasant jokes are that popular?

Dan_Solo

Akin to the gentry mentality of the average Indo reading golden circle party supporter I'd imagine.

Day Lewin

Person incessantly afraid that their mud cabin will be burnt down and their subsistence crop destroyed.

Eg fearful, deferential and with very narrow horizons owing to poverty.

#literalanswer

(I love hashtags)

Dan_Solo

Oink wrote: »

So generally, people who have the august demeanour of the animals they are most likely descended from.

So peasants believe in facts and the rest are creationists? Is that it? :-)

GreeBo

I see it as those that live from hand to mouth and dont have aspirations of more.

AdFundum

The bread and butter politics that is the entirety of Irish politics - more funding for Opera please!

Oh, economists - dismally disseminating their dismal science - damn peasants.

Molester Stallone II

One eyed Jack wrote: »

Epitome of the peasant mentality right there - someone who wants to be respected for their perceived superiority, but laments the fact that nobody else recognises their apparent genius intellect.

Who was it that called Paddy Kavanagh bitter?

One eyed Jack

Molester Stallone II wrote: »

Who was it that called Paddy Kavanagh bitter?

Ah that wasn't referring to you Molester, I was only including your post for context. It was luftie's reply I was referring to as the peasant mentality by referring to AH regulars as "holier than thous", while starting threads in AH looking for opinions.

It's the equivalent of Patrick Kavanagh who was bitter about the fact that he felt his superior intellect was never recognised by his peers.

lufties

anncoates wrote: »

It's often what you call people- that are 'trapped ' in the 'hellhole' of Ireland - that have the temerity to look bored about your 7 hour emigrant tales in the pub over Christmas.

Jesus that doesn't make any sense

lufties

One eyed Jack wrote: »

Ah that wasn't referring to you Molester, I was only including your post for context. It was luftie's reply I was referring to as the peasant mentality by referring to AH regulars as "holier than thous", while starting threads in AH looking for opinions.

It's the equivalent of Patrick Kavanagh who was bitter about the fact that he felt his superior intellect was never recognised by his peers.

It was a bloody joke, but there certainly are holier than thous on this that will shout you down for having an opinion different to 'the norm'.

looksee

lufties wrote: »

It was a bloody joke, but there certainly are holier than thous on this that will shout you down for having an opinion different to 'the norm'.

You'll be ok so!

Diemos

Moffett wrote: »

Factory floor banter, ' I could never be a manager, I like to go home and switch off....' as if your manager doesn't, only difference is they're on 80k a year! Always the hardest working folk that say it too?

I think you are misunderstanding their position, they are not saying that they think their managers do not switch off, they are saying that if they were in that position, they could not switch off as the lazy co-workers on the floor would annoy them so much.

AndonHandon

katemarch wrote: »

Person incessantly afraid that their mud cabin will be burnt down and their subsistence crop destroyed.

Eg fearful, deferential and with very narrow horizons owing to poverty.

#literalanswer

(I love hashtags)

Sinn Feiners essentially.

goose2005

looksee wrote: »

I'd say a peasant mentality is not so much someone who is put down as someone who does not want to lift himself up. Its easier to sit in the mud and whinge about the unfairness of life.

More that it's someone who is slightly above the bottom and hates those at the bottom, because he fears becoming one of them. (Bear in mind that in former times there were lots of people worse off than peasants - landless labourers, vagrants, migrant workers etc.)