In your own words, what's the difference between COMMON sense & STREET sense?

Question

Some people say common sense is using proper judgment through your GUT instinct & street sense needs to be taught. Others say they're 1 in the same.

Answer 1

Common sense is something we should gain from life itself. The proper way to deal with something

Street sense is a variation based on some realities that not everything is good or as expected. Learning by experience. It can also be referred to a survival techniques when living in a high crime area. Street sense is the opposite of being naive.

Answer 2

Common sense is something you ought to know - eg. carry an umbrella when its about to rain; you are sure to suffer burns if you put your hand over an open flame, etc. Street sense or being street wise is acquired through experience. There is definitely a very fine line between them.

Answer 3

They are not one and the same. Common sense (which is not all that common any more), is using your brain and analyticl ability to reason out situations.

Street sense is an ability that comes with time on the job, or experience out in the 'hood', or whatever. It comes from learning how to protect yourself, how to keep. yourself up in a bad situration, etc. It also is the result of observing what happens 'on the street'.

Answer 4

Ummm...I don't know. It is sorta the same thing...but in ways its not. But street smarts is in common sense some sort of way.

Common sense is when it's something you should already know. Like people trying to reveal their body or wear flip flops when it's snowing outside.....then you think to yourself "wtf?".

Ever listened to rappers saying I have book smart && street smart. Street smart is like knowing the way the streets are. Knowledgible at illegal activity. Guns, drugs, fighting, what to do and what not to do in certain situations. Usually "street smart" is talking about in the "ghetto" or "hood".

Answer 5

Street sense is knowing which drug dealers to buy from and how not to get ripped off.

Common sense is not going there to buy drugs in the first place.

Answer 6

Street smarts is like knowing all the terms and what drug dealers do. Common sense is just something you should know.

Answer 7

Street wise or street sense can help a person survive whereas common sense keeps a person from appearing to be a "Redneck", uneducated, or ignorant.
I am intelligent and a Redneck-absolutely no common sense.