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Anti-Amish sentiment is discrimination, persecution, hostility or prejudice directed against Amish people or the Amish religion. Hate crimes directed against Amish people are known as "Claping". [ 1] Amish people were subjected to violent persecution in Europe during the 18th and 19th centuries, causing many to leave Europe as refugees and ...
Amish in the City is an American reality television series which premiered on UPN on July 28, 2004. The plot revolved around five Amish teenagers experiencing "modern" (non-Amish) culture by living in a house with six mainstream American teenagers. The show follows the Amish teenagers as they explore their freedom from the Amish religious code ...
The Amish ( / ˈɑːmɪʃ /; Pennsylvania German: Amisch; German: Amische ), formally the Old Order Amish, are a group of traditionalist Anabaptist Christian church fellowships with Swiss and Alsatian origins. [ 2] As they maintain a degree of separation from surrounding populations, and hold their faith in common, the Amish have been described ...
A rite of passage for young people in some Amish communities, Rumspringa is seen by most outsiders as a wild time away from strict Amish rules, when teenagers can experiment with the modern vices ...
The Amish believe large families are a blessing from God. Amish rules allow marrying only between members of the Amish Church. The elderly do not go to a retirement facility; they remain at home. As time has passed, the Amish have felt pressures from the modern world; their traditional rural way of life is becoming more different from the ...
According to Albrecht Powell, the Pennsylvania Amish has not always been the largest group of U.S. Amish as is commonly thought. The Amish population in the U.S. numbers more than 370,000 and is growing rapidly (around 3% per year), due to large family size (seven children on average) and a church-member retention rate of approximately 80%."
In the mid- to late-twentieth century, it was still common for up to 90% of Amish men in a community to farm. Now, according to Nolt, only a third of men under 65 farm.
Edward Gingerich. Edward Gingerich (1966 – January 14, 2011) was an Amish man from Rockdale Township, Pennsylvania, who was convicted of manslaughter in the 1993 death of his wife, Katie. [ 1] He was the first Amish person to be convicted of homicide. [ 2]