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Yokel is one of several derogatory terms referring to the stereotype of unsophisticated country people. ==Stereotype== In the United States, the term is used to describe someone living in rural areas. Synonyms for yokel include ''bubba'', ''country bumpkin'', ''hayseed'', ''chawbacon'', ''rube'', ''redneck'', ''hillbilly'', and ''hick''. The 2002 movie ''Bubba Ho-Tep'' defines Bubba as "a male resident of the southeastern United States", "redneck", and "good old boy". In the UK, yokels are traditionally depicted as wearing the old West Country/farmhand's dress of straw hat and white smock, chewing or sucking a piece of straw and carrying a pitchfork or rake, listening to "Scrumpy and Western" music. Yokels are portrayed as living in rural areas of Britain such as the West Country, East Anglia, the Yorkshire Dales, the Scottish Highlands and Wales. British yokels speak with country dialects from various parts of Britain.() Yokels are depicted as straightforward, simple and naive, and easily deceived, failing to see through false pretenses. They are also depicted as talking about bucolic topics like cows, sheep, goats, wheat, alfalfa, fields, crops, tractors, and buxom wenches to the exclusion of all else. Broadly, they are portrayed as unaware of or uninterested in the world outside their own surroundings. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Yokel」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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