In some areas of rural Ireland, for example, people grow their potatoes and other vegetables, and raise sheep for meat and wool. They build their own houses, using stones, and heat their homes with peat, which they cut from nearby bogs. In most of Southeast Asia, people have a different resource base, but they also live mainly from the land. They eat rice, which they grow, and small amounts of meat. The meat comes from water buffaloes, which also provide milk and butter, and are used to plow the rice field, or paddies.
Meat also comes from the chickens and ducks they raise.
They make their homes of bamboo and mud brick. On the other side of the world, in the Andes Mountains of South America, people raise guinea pigs for meat, llamas for wool and transportation, and vegetables, such as potatoes. All of these peoples have more in common with Yup'ik Eskimos than they do with city dwellers. They all know their area well, and, for the most part, take what they need directly from the environment. People who live in cities around the world are different because they rely mainly on others to produce their food, clothing, houses, and tools.