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Talking about the history of Peru, was referring to the construction of our identity and our conflicts still to be resolved. The society of our time, is a company that has collected and assimilated many customs of our past, but now many do not realize it. Speaking of Peru is talk of confluence of cultures, at a time when multiculturalism is recognized as a potential and not as an impediment to progress. Much has been said from the trauma of conquest, the evils inflicted on the Spanish Indians and blacks today find the position of the bad history, this discarded. Numerous studies indicate that we present in this world as complex as fascinating was that the colony, there were many approaches by the different groups in society, the Indian was adapted most of which are believed to the Spanish presence, but that does not undone abuse and arrogance of which they were victims. In Peru contemporary remaining vestiges of segregation, whether by age, ethnicity, gender or economic status. There was a time when racism was so steeped in the minds of Peruvians who came to say that the Chinese (referring to culíes) were an abject race, degenerate, inhumane. Two centuries later, these schemes have broken biased. However, there are still gaps, visible and very recent example was the unfortunate incident happened two congressmen Quechua speakers in an airline known cases such as these do more than confirm the necessity that men have a history through it is possible to dispose myths and false belief. The same applies to everyday life, with the walk of millions of people who are unaware that their lives are likely to be studied in some hundred years perhaps. The story is a daily section that is expanding and has a sense reivindicatorio for all, because it cares all types of life.

Do you know that...

• The dresses using calls mamitas, in the Peruvian Andes, were created in the eighteenth century and that actually emerged as a copy of the French fashion. When Indians in full colonial period were forbidden to wear their costumes or speak the Quechua, they chose to make their clothes, copying fashion, then boom in Europe, with materials from those available ...

• The expansion of empire began after its victory over the Chancas in defense of Cuzco, for a little prince teenager named Cusi Yupanqui, which then become Pachacutec ...

• The maximum Incanato, Ama LLulla, Quella Love and Love Súa, were an invention of the twentieth century, created by the so-called indigenous, eager for the recognition of our indigenous past?

• During the colonial era, it was said that the souls stayed a long time in Purgatory, and so they can go to Paradise, relatives or friends still living should give alms during the Eucharist, to the point that the currency should fall by sonar long time in the alforja because the more throughout the sound of coins more stretched the light that light the way to Paradise?

• It was quite common amancebamiento between priests and feligresas during the XVII century?

• The soap in the Colony, was only used for washing clothes, and that the concept of personal hygiene did not exist until the late eighteenth century ...

• The colonial society did not see eye ill with the abandonment of children or infants, and that for this reason there were many hospices, which were not even slaughter ...

• In the nineteenth century, the concept of women as mothers and protective of their children, because in this century, it encasilló the woman for her reproductive capacity.

• Doctors who were using the knowledge of the corps, said that women having uterus unlike the man by nature, its role in society should be to bring children into the world and raise them ...

• The first university Peruvian admitted that the presence of women in their classrooms was the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, in the year 1908 ...

• The medical practice appears only in the eighteenth century, in centuries past, health was in the hands of people without much experience calls barbers and surgeons who did not have higher education ...