VILLAGE GIRLS VS FARM GIRLS Ukrainians use the term ‘Village Girl’ the way we am

VILLAGE GIRLS VS FARM GIRLS

Ukrainians use the term ‘Village Girl’ the way we americans use the term “farm girl”. Now, in america this tends to mean ‘pretty, wholesome, pragmatic, honest, and open, if unsophisticated’ and basically uncorrupted by city life.

A ‘Village Girl’ in Ukraine has all the good qualities, except the poverty has made them a bit ‘pragmatic’ and lacking in suburban romanticism and urban idealism. The local urbanites use the term disparagingly. But I don’t see it the same way.

We are spoiled in the west. We have forgotten our poverty of less than a century ago.