The Amish are a group of people who have lived in America for a long time. The first Amish people set foot on American soil in the early 18th century to find farming land and to escape religious persecution in Europe.
To this day, the Amish still maintain their lifestyle isolated, following nature, rejecting technology and the modern world.
Although their main language is German, the pronunciation is not the same as the German in circulation and is a bit affected. influenced by English from the surrounding environment.
The Amish are mainly farmers. After settling in Ohio, they gradually expanded their residence and are now present in 30 US states and Canada. Ohio is where the most Amish people live, followed by Pennsylvania and Indiana.
Although it can be said that farming is a traditional profession passed down to the Amish, in the past 100 years they have tended to engage in engages in businesses primarily specializing in carpentry and agricultural products.
The Amish are one of the fastest growing populations in the United States – from about 5,000 people in 1920 to nearly 300,000 people today. They believe that large families with many children and grandchildren are a blessing and that having many children also provides a strong labor force for farming.
Photography in the Amish belief is a personal vanity. They believe that technology will invade and eliminate traditional beauty and also cause the community to be assimilated by the values of outside society.
Circulating within the Amish community are many conflicting rules: they are allowed to use 12V car batteries but not 120V current is used. Or most of them are not allowed to own motorbikes but are allowed to rent them to drive.
The Amish community around the world is not uniform in all rules. They are also divided into 4 main branches, including the branch that still uses cars and electricity.
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