The Old Order Amish Mennonites: North America

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The Amish Becky Cline ANT 101 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology Mitra Ronki December 5, 2011 The Old Order Amish Mennonites is from the North America these people are Germanic. The Anabaptist group has been persisted from their beliefs for more than three centuries they are the Amish, the Mennonites and the Hutterites. They believe in baptism and pacifism, they stayed with a strict religious community. Later on the Amish had migrated from several countries to America. The first migration started in 1727 to 1790, there was about five hundred Amish that settled in the Pennsylvania area. In 1815 and 1865 three thousand more Amish immigrated to Ohio, New York, Indiana and Illinois. As of 1990 there…show more content…
The Andy Weaver are more progressive and the New Order Amish are the most progressive” (The Amish history, Beliefs, Practices). The Amish has to maintain a social relation, but not with the members of their groups. Within the group marriages and the kinship is reinforce by the family based. When the Amish marry it is normally a large kin group. With the Intermarriage the results can be intermingling for the Genealogies that have taken place for more than two centuries with the evident taking place in various Amish which are very few surnames. An Amish wedding can be an elaborate affair, which will involve the whole community. Normally the Amish church will depend on several biological reproductions for the members this is acquiring with the new members through the…show more content…
With the traditions that the Amish have living in a rural area, using buggies and horses for transpiration and they do their own farming, marry in the same group. They dress the same way in the seventeenth century like the Europeans did. The Amish is also secure for the traditions that are from the outside world and their relationship with the neighbors is being judgmental. With the first migration in 1727 and 1790 there were about five hundred Amish that had settled in the Pennsylvania area. The next migration that took place was in 1815 and 1865 and about three thousand Amish immigrated to the Ohio area, New York, Indiana and then to Illinois. There is about 130,000 Amish living in about twenty states as of 1990. With the Old Order Amish Mennonites that is from the North America, these people are Germanic. The Amish, the Mennonites and the Hutterites, believe in the Anabaptist group that persisted from their beliefs for more than three centuries. They also believe in baptism and pacifism, they stay very strict with the religious

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