naïveté.
I know young women from the rural northeast come to Soi Cowboy in Bangkok desperate for work to send money home. They can make more in an evening getting Japanese and American tourists to buy them drinks than their dads can make in a week. (Fifty baht is about a buck and a half).
Living small means withholding judgment and treating these women and even their customers with compassion, whatever form that compassion make take.