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The Amish – another way of life
In the top of the USA you’ll find a state called Pennsylvania. In this state you’ll find some strange people, living in a completely different way than we do. These people are called Amish, because they belong to a religious sect called “the Amish.” They live in their own communities, which can’t be compared to ours.
The Amish people have previously lived in Europe, but only in small parts. Switzerland, Germany and Holland were just some of the places, where they lived in their own communities, without any contact to the remaining people. In the 1800 and 1900 lots of them immigrated to the big USA. Today you can find the Amish in 23 states in USA, and in small parts of Canada. They speak Dutch, and Pennsylvania Dutch. The children are also learning how to talk English in the school – but they don’t use it at home.
Amish people live in a funny way, if you ask me. They live much like their ancestors did – like we did hundred years ago. Modern things like electricity, indoor water pipes, telephones, cars and so on aren’t allowed. Simply – they don’t think it’s necessary. Also they find it stressful, and they mean it would change their way of life. For example, do they not want the telephone because they don’t want to be connected to the outside world. Instead of a car they use buggies, pulled by horses, like they did in the old days. Actually, everything in their community reminds me about the old day.
The most important message in Amish belief is that you must love you neighbour as you love yourself. It’s a sentence who fills a big part to the Amish people. That is maybe the reason to their kindness. Amish people believe that vanity is a sin – and if the women are pretty, it might cause jealousy, and the message about charity will not be met. That is also the reason to their way to dress. They don’t care about their way to look – but instead, it’s an important thing that the cloth is practical. The Amish woman’s doesn’t wear jewellery, or cosmetic. If you live like an Amish, it means a life with your family, good food, books, and what they call freedom. As I told before, are a lot of electrical things not allowed. Things like cosmetic, perfume and artificial material is also banned in most of the Amish communities.
The whole idea with this community is to create a culture that can survive the ever changing world outside. It’s a simple culture, which builds on Jesus and a sustainable life in harmony with the nature. A life without jealousy and greed. They think it’s the only way to live. To prove that, they give the young people the choice to stay in their community, or to leave and get out with the “normal” people. 3 out of four 4 choose to stay, which surprises me a lot. If I didn’t know that, I would guess only one of 4 was staying. But I’m not like them – and I haven’t grown up in the same way that they had.
The Amish are Christians like us. They believe in god, but in another way than we do. They take the bible very literally, and follow it closely. Not that they do everything the bible says, but almost. They mean their way to live is the absolutely best way – and our way is all wrong. Actually, the Amish haven’t a church. They are preaching the sermon in a barn, where all the Amish meets every single Sunday. After the sermon the host family had made a lunch and supper for the entire community.
Without their way to hold distance to electricity – they don’t have contact to hospitals, insurance companies and so on. For example, if a girl gets pregnant she has to give birth without any form for medications; she can’t go to the hospital to give birth to the baby. If they crash in one of their horse buggies, they wear a sign, so people can see that they belongs to the Amish – who means they can’t went there. If their barn burns down, they haven’t an insurance to help them build it up again. So it’s an advantage that they are very good farmers and carpenters. Everyone in the community helps to build their barn up again.
The Amish believes that wisdom is better than knowledge, that’s maybe the reason to the children only go to school until 8th grade, and their teacher is often a young unmarried woman. The school is not big; actually they only got one room, where every student is at the same time – from 8.30 to 3.30. Even thought their parents mean it’s more necessary, they stayed at home and helped them, are they helpful at the school. The women’s are cleaning and making lunch, and the men’s are turning up the fire early in the morning.
Their cloth is also like in the old days. They make almost all their cloth by them self. They want their cloth to be functional – so it doesn’t matter whether it’s pretty or ugly. All the men’s and boys’ is wearing a dark coloured suit with a coat – in the winter. And in the summer they are wearing a vest instead of the jacket. Until men’s are getting married, they shave themselves. After their wedding they let the beard grow. They may not have moustaches – because it considers like decoration which is forbidden to the Amish.
The women’s are wearing modifies collared dresses, with a long sleeve, and a full skirt with a cape from the waist. It isn’t allowed for the women’s to wear patterned cloth, jewellery or other kinds of pretty things. Their hair is always in a ponytail. They are always wearing a bonnet – white or black. It’s very important for them to hide their figure, therefore are they wearing those big dresses.
The family is everything to them. It’s what they are living for. Large family’s with 7-10 children is very normal. They use much time together, whether they are working or are sitting in the house and having fun. The man and boys are usually working on the farm, while the wife and girls is cleaning, washing and cooking and so on. Also their way to organise the chores is like in the old day – it’s very old fashioned, like the rest of their lifestyle.
It could probably be good for us, to live like them for a couple of weeks – but not any longer. I guess, we’re to glad for these lovely electronics aids. But one thing we could use, which the Amish have, is their happiness. The joy of being together. That’s a things, most of us moderns people could use. It’s very few people who choose the family’s cosiness, over so many unimportant things. It’s a thing the Amish are good at. They spend a lot of time with their family and friends. They live in a world without stress, which a lot’s of hard working people suffer from.


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