Do you think people in the country are more naive or people who've been raised in the country or more naive Than People raised in the city

.. I grew up on a farm..
But now I live in the city..
I'm just as naive as ever..lol

I grew up around farms and I feel the same way like I am an easy target sometimes

I think it doesn't really matter when discussing generalities.

People adapt pretty quickly. People move from the country to the city, and people move from the city to the country, and they get by just fine.

Being naive isn't an incurable disease or anything bad.

Maybe a better question would be "do you think people who've been raised in the country are more or less prone to being willfully naive compared to those raised in the city?"

No I asked what it was I wished too, but thank you for you response

I think it depends on the person. I have lived both in the country and the city and don't consider myself as being naive.

I grew up in a tiny Timber town and I am know I was totally Naive when I left for the big world. I got married and went to Ft. Dix New Jersey talk about a culture shock...
But as said you adapt pretty quickly...

no both just have a different knowledge base

Everyone is an individual. People in the country are not naïve, its just that they have a simpler way of life then city slickers.

I grew up in the city....all my life but during those times i had been to rural areas too, & i met à girl in 2011 who i had a 3 year relationship with & we were living on a farm....it was the first time i experienced the calmness & peace of it but we went our seperate ways in 2014 & i'm back to my city fast paced life

I was born and raised within the capital city of my province Bacolod City, I don't consider myself naive as we were exposed by our parents in a city life though it's a bit conservative compared to another province Manila where I worked after I graduated from college. I felt naive and had a culture shock as most of my work colleagues are very open minded and more liberated. Though I have easily adapted to their way of life , I still carry on with some of my values, beliefs and ideas inculcated by my parents.

I don't believe it one way or another, both are smart but just at different things.

Where a person is raised doesn't really make much difference. However, I think women start off more Naive then men. But by their 30s they really wise up.

I made a turkey dinner for a young Asian girlfriend that had never eaten turkey before. She pointed to the turkey neck and asked what it was. I told her it was the turkey d-ck. Her eyes swelled and she had a strange look on her face. I told her I prepared the turkey d-ck just for her.

She totally believed me. She wouldn't touch it. After teasing her for awhile, I burst out laughing and told her the truth.

My own experience with being vulnerable (naive) to abuse, all came down to how long it took me to realie that the people around me:

* did NOT have more wisdom than I did, just because they knew their way around the area better, and knew peoples' names and so on;

* were NOT any more deserving of respect for their abilities and skills than I was, just because my abilities and skills were designed for other tasks than theirs;

* did NOT deserve in any way to be catered to, or allowed more leeway than I allowed myself, when it came to how they behaved towards other people.

I am convinced that the number one reason why "country bumpkins" find themselves being had by "city slickers," isn't because the city folk are less naive, per se. It's because there are an assortment of basic prejudices or what might be called "social superstitions" that lead people to turn themselves into victims.

* "Lingo Aggression." This is where groups of people make up new ways of saying things, not because their new words communicate ideas any better, but because the new phrases act like code, delineating who is "in" and who is "not in." Every aggressive social movement indulges in this, making up rude names for opponents or target peoples, and assembling "in joke" names for common things.

The goal of such, is to make newly arrived people feel uncomfortable, because they are "out of the loop." It's the same thing we tend to feel when in a foreign country, and everyone around us is jabbering away incomprehensibly, and laughing (at us?).

* stylized rudeness and disrespect. This is designed to imply and establish superiority, without bothering to truly test each other in any functional way.

Anyway, I could rattle on as usual, but I wont. You get the idea.

Basically, I was naive, because I thought I was naive.

Thank you for all the wonderful perspectives on this.

Lord I hate posting from my phone...

So I will try to make sense out my my post. Growing up in a tiny Timber town in remote mountains in Oregon, I think we grew up a bit more innocent than the people that grew up in say Portland. I know when I got married and moved to NJ it was a huge culture shock.

I also know that I had skills others didn't and it didn't take me long to adapt.

thats an easy one


country folk are more naive about city life

and city folk are more naive about country life

Evian is a popular spring water in the city, the sad part of this is Evian is naive spelled backward thus proving that city folk are no brighter then country folk.

Stylized rudeness and disrespect. That's what her deal was. Thanks for that post Igor. Oh first time anyone put lingo aggression in words for me.

Some of the smartest people I know are from the country...but not when it comes to street smarts...But after living in the city, they have acquired this wisdom...now they are doubly smart...just saying...