The Amish Tiffany Capehart ANT 101 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology Jennifer Hotzman 12/10/12 The Amish Community is very interesting to me. I enjoyed the research and all I have learned by writing this paper. I am going to write this paper on the Amish ways. This paper will include the Amish history‚ beliefs‚ economic status and their organization. Amish History The Amish (also called Amish Mennonites) are all members of an Anabaptist Christian denomination who are especially known
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Amish Rumspringa The modern society is characterized by rapid technological advancement accompanied by changes in behavior of people across the world‚ especially youth. This makes it very hard for traditional societies to thrive hence perpetuation of conventional cultures is at stake. For one North American community known as the Amish however‚ modernization has been met with resistance as the society continues to practice its traditional culture‚ especially the Rumspringa‚ a rite of passage that
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The History of Amish and Mennonite Cultures The Amish have long been a mystery to most of us including myself. I find them fascinating because personally‚ technology and the comforts of modern facilities make life easier for me so why would a group of people resist technology and not enjoy the same technology that makes life easier for us all? Being religious never meant doing without so why does this particular religious group feel the need to suffer in the eyes of mainstream society? The article
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The Amish Having no electricity‚ no phones or even any modern day technology- to us it would be a major culture shock but to the Amish it is just another day in life. The Amish are considered a society that is outdated and old. I have learned from researching that they can be fully functional. The way they dress is probably the most obvious sign of what sets them off from everyone else. The men‚ women‚ and kids have a certain way they have to dress every day. Men generally wear dark colored
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Langlier; both were raised Amish‚ they met when they were teens in the Amish community in Central PA. Mrs. Langlier‚ the daughter of the bishop‚ and Mr. Langlier the son of a Farmer. When they married‚ farming was what they knew and began. They have six children‚ three boys and three girls. Their farm is pristine and welcoming‚ it is the home Mrs. Langlier was raised. Mrs. Langlier moved to Central PA when she was nine‚ from Ohio. There was a split in the Amish community‚ because of some
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Who are the Amish? Many people around the world have no idea who or what the Amish culture is. Many countries or towns around the world have their differences and their own rules about their environment and things other people should respect from other countries‚ but most of them are not as strict as the Amish communities. The Amish sometimes referred to as Amish Mennonites‚ are a group of traditionalist Christian church fellowships that form a subgroup of the Mennonite churches. The Amish are known
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The United States as a country has a dominant culture that is composed of widely accepted values and norms from all different scopes of the world. These values and norms are observed and respected by the masses. Within the main culture of the United States there are also groups known as subcultures. A subculture is a culture within a broader mainstream culture‚ with its own separate values‚ practices‚ and beliefs. In sociology‚ the concept of subculture explains the behavior of some social groups
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Technology & the Amish The Amish are averse to any technology which they feel weakens the family structure. The conveniences that the rest of us take for granted such as electricity‚ television‚ automobiles‚ telephones and tractors are considered to be a temptation that could cause vanity‚ create inequality‚ or lead the Amish away from their close-knit community and‚ as such‚ are not encouraged or accepted in most orders. Most Amish cultivate their fields with horse-drawn machinery‚ live
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Society and Culture Part Two There are many obvious differences seen from an outside perspective of Amish and Australian society‚ but when looked at in more detail similarities in structure‚ roles and decision making appear. The Amish society comes from a line of strict tradition and tight knit farming communities‚ whose values have changed little over time whereas as Australia is a post-industrial society which is constantly advancing in technology‚ culture and (something about the
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The Amish are a group of church abiding people‚ whose way of life is driven by their religion. There religion basically tells them that they must be separate from worldly sin to receive salvation. Every facet of their life has something to do with them keeping this way of life. There way of life ties in with their mode of subsistence. The Amish are horticulturist. “Horticulture is a non mechanized‚ non intensive form of plant cultivation performed non repetitively on a plot of land”(Nowak &Laird
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