What I Admired About the Amish Lifestyle

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The Amish people live in a pretty old way I think. Probably there’s only a little that has changed about their lifestyle in a long time. From the movie that we watched last week, I have a kind of feeling that the Amish people just look like a cast from a biblical movie set. All the Amish men, whether they are old or young, wear large brimmed black hats, and for those who have married, they have beards, but not mustaches. The women wear a hair covering called a bonnet, long dresses, and black shoes. Amish people’s language is like the old English mixed with the German. This is why during the movie WITNESS, when that old Amish man was speaking, I always could not understand. I think the reason that Amish people speak German is they came from Europe several hundred years ago. In Amish people‘s lives, I think they make all the stuff by using their hands. They do not use all the machines and all the electronics. Amish build their houses by using the wood that they made, but not using the huge machines. They transport the goods by using horses, but not using trucks. They also have their own blacksmiths, which can make lots of iron tools to help the Amish people in their daily lives. Talking about the education in the Amish people’s lives, I believe that they only need to go to the primary schools and learn some basic knowledge. This is because the high level skills are useless in the Amish people’s lives. Nobody will use the calculus, matrix, integration or Newton’s Laws in the daily lives, will they? Their lives are uncomplicated, I think. Unlike us, the Amish people’s children do not have video games to play. That is pretty sad, I think. Because I even cannot imagine life without video games. The entertainment of the Amish people, I think, is singing. Singing is interesting, but if there is only singing, life would be super

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