Peru Cultural Analysis

Chapter I

CULTURAL ANALYSIS

The chapter focuses on the cultural environment of Peru. We try to study and analyze these cultural factors in determining what our product will be. The latter introduction tells us the main points in Peru’s cultural analysis.

I. INTRODUCTION

Peru does not recognize any official form of caste system but in fact its treatment of the indigenous population can be seen in many ways as an implicit caste arrangement. In this implicit caste system, race and/or ethnicity is the major variable to divide the population into strongly (and after five centuries, voluntarily) enforced groupings. In Peru's racial hierarchy, very much a remnant of its colonial past, whites occupy the highest rung of the ladder while the rest of

Until the mid-1990s, the telecommunications infrastructure, which is currently one of the most important tools for IT and information access in a country, was a poorly maintained system with poor access in urban areas and nearly nonexistent access in rural areas. The privatization of the state-owned system and subsequent liberalization of the telecommunications market has led to radical shifts in the entire Peruvian IT environment. Privatization and liberalization are discussed as a specific section of this report, but readers will also note repeated references to them throughout the report. In addition to enacting privatization legislation, the Peruvian government has been active in passing other laws to ensure data privacy, electronic commerce safety and ease, and encouragement of IT use to promote and improve Peruvian

SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS

i. Family life

Families in peru shows a high degree of unity, purpose, and integration no matter what their status are. The nation as a whole has the average size for families of 5.1 per household, while in the urban areas the average size for family is more than this and in the rural families especially in the highland families that compose majority of rural households have been deeply modified by the heavy migration of their family members to the cities, coastal farms and Selva colonization.

Father as family head is strongly centered in Hispanic Peruvian pattern, although women occupy this title role in rural areas. The pattern in other countries, women work to meet family needs. The patriarchal family is losing its place as the model of family life. The contributors to these changes are the loss o male population in rural areas through migration and poverty related conditions that lead men to abandon their families. The usual families are patricentic, male being the head of the family and is considered the authority, while his wife follows him with respect, yet she still has controls over her own affairs when it comes to marketing and property. ii. Domestic