1) Fish, animal meal
2) Gold 3) Copper Ore Peru exports nearly 10% of the world’s fish supply and 33% of the world’s animal meal and pellets (mostly fish product/byproduct). They vastly out export Chile, United States, Germany and Denmark. The top importers are China (25%), Germany (6.8%), Norway (6.5%), Japan (5.6%) and Taiwan (5%). Their large export comes from the fact many of their cites and towns live right at the edge of the coast. Another large export of Peru is gold. Their gold is about 20% of their entire exports although they are only 10th in the world to export gold. They make most of their money off of their gold exports. This is an important export because gold is always sellable. Lastly Peru exports 16% of the worlds supply of copper ore. This is 18% of Peru’s main export. I would say this is one of the most important exports because they are the only second to Chile; although they only produce half as much copper ore. Many of Peru’s other exports are about 5% or less of their entire exports. Men: traditionally in Peru, men would be given typical male jobs. For instance, males would be given priority in education. Men would also be assigned to look after and protect the women. It was typical that the man of the house would go out and seek a career and provide for his family. Men have more opportunity and higher pay then a women. In current society, Peru is slowly adopting equal rights for women. However, it's still expected of men to be masculine by providing more than the women in the home. Many homes will operate in the traditional gender roles. Women: in Peru, women would be asked to take care of the household and bare children. Typically women would cook, clean and raise the children at home while the man was providing for the family. Many young women's education would be neglected and given priority to males of the house. Young women would be taught how to take care of a home and cook. Although in America it's hard to imagine that women are still being treated unfairly. In Peru women still can be physically harmed by a man with no repercussions to the man. Women have slowly entered the world of working outside of the home. They are still being paid less then men and have less opportunity to get a job. I personally think that Peru isn't developed enough to implement laws of equality like America. Their country needs to develop further with knowledge, skills and technology. If they try and force their population into acceptance they'll most likely reject the change. You have to let people arrive at their own conclusions with facts and logic. Sources:
Peru - FAMILY LIFE. (n.d.). Retrieved March 4, 2015, from http://countrystudies.us/peru/43.htm News. (n.d.). Retrieved March 4, 2015, from http://suco.org/suco/women-in-peru/?lang=en Kang, J. (n.d.). Gender Roles and Rural-Urban Divide in the Peruvian Andes. Retrieved March 4, 2015, from http://www.ajlas.org/v2006/paper/2010vol23no204.pdf |
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