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Amish A sect where time stopped three centuries ago!!

Amish A sect where time stopped three centuries ago!!


They live in a seventeenth-century lifestyle and do not use any of the modern luxuries.

There are members of a sect who live of their own free will just as their first ancestors who came to America in the seventeenth century lived! Since 1660 the wheel of time has stopped at this sect and nothing has changed, no matter how simple it may be in the way of life of these people.

It hasn't changed much in 300 years. They don't use electricity, so their homes don't have electric lighting, no TVs, no kitchen appliances like refrigerators, no telephones. They are forbidden to ride in a car so you see them riding horse-drawn carriages and speaking one of the German dialects spoken by their early ancestors who lived in Germany and Switzerland. They were named Amish after their leader and founder Aman Jacob. The Amish community was severely persecuted in Europe and many were executed, so they took refuge in the New World around 1660 and resided in Pennsylvania, where they reside to this day.

The Amish community was founded by Aman Jacob and is one of dozens of splinter Christian groups that emerged in medieval Europe as the religious reform movement spread.

They believe that their clothes perpetuate the life of asceticism and simplicity that they have chosen for themselves, so that women wear modest and long clothes and bibs and cut hair and tie it behind the head because it is forbidden for a woman to reveal her hair, while men and boys wear dark-colored suits, coats, black hats or wide straw hats. After marriage, they grow beards and shave their mustaches (similar to Salafi Muslims)... It is forbidden for them to wear belts, gloves, ties, t-shirts...

- It is mandatory for women to cover the hair of their heads and dress modestly

- Groups headed by a council of senior senators (what looks like the people of the solution and the contract)

- Prohibition of singing and music

- The beard is compulsory in men immediately after marriage with the shaving of the mustache

- Prohibition of drinking alcohol and adultery.

Adult girls and women.....

At the Amish they wear very conservative clothes! They wear only long sleeves and loose long dress. They are veiled and are never allowed to cut their hair!! Yes the Amish women are veiled!! They wear white headscarves if they are married and black if they are not married.

Regarding the study.......

They do not recognize public education and instead teach their children in semi-one- or two-room schools (gender segregation applies) where they learn from Amish teachers, of course, the principles of English (they do not speak English but have a German dialect), the principles of arithmetic, geography and Amish history only (they do not care about the outside world or its history), in addition to teaching the Christian faith and some educational classes that instill their values and principles in the hearts of children... In 1972 the U.S. government issued a decision exempting them from compulsory education.

When the Amish are 18 years old, they go for three years to explore the outside world and during this period they have to decide whether they want to stay in the Amish community or prefer modern life, and surprisingly four out of five young people prefer to return to the Amish community and spend their lives there!


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