Is there a village in America that always rejects modern civilization?

Amish people are a branch of Christianity, and their ancestors are Swiss-born Germans. As early as 1693, he separated from the bishop because he opposed joining the army and violence. Amish began to immigrate to the United States and Canada in the18th century. In the United States, they mainly settled in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Maryland.

Amish's religious purpose is to preserve the simple culture and the simplest way of life in European villages in the17th century through religious belief and practice. Amish people in the United States refused to accept the science, technology and lifestyle of modern society and tried to completely isolate themselves from the tribes in American social culture.

Since the18th century, Amish people have lived a quiet, isolated, unchanging and ultra-simple life in agriculture, animal husbandry and textile industry for generations due to religious reasons. They refused to use modern facilities and technology. They have no electricity, telephone or TV. Some tribes set up personal public telephone booths in case of emergency, but they must stay away from private houses. They believe that electricity is a medium leading to the outside world, which can lead to the use of household appliances, which goes against the tradition and principles of Amish simple living. They used carriages instead of cars. Some tribes provide personal taxis in case of emergency. They weave their own cloth instead of wearing modern clothes. Women wear old-fashioned dresses, white aprons and small hats; Men can only wear dark pants, vests and straw hats

Most Amish people speak German except English. They have their own school, usually a one-room home school. Amish graduated from junior high school with the highest educational level. They believe that junior high school education is enough to provide their descendants with enough knowledge to adapt to the simple lifestyle and content of Amish people. Amish ancestors were born and raised in such a religious environment and received such religious edification. Although Amish's religious regulations allow him to choose to leave Amish and live in the real world when he is 18 years old, few Amish people in history made such a decision when he was 18 years old. They are used to this existence in their own tribe. They regard outside the tribe as a bad crime, and they regard modern life as a fierce struggle. They're not going anywhere!

Amish religion does not allow its members to contact with non-Amish people. They can't join the army, get American social insurance, and apply for and accept any relief from the American government. Because American social insurance is not accepted for religious reasons, the IRS decided that 196 1 is tax-free for Amish. Amish people have always lived a life dependent on churches and tribes. They live in peace with the world and others, and they will not defend any disputes, even in court and in wartime. In terms of medical care, Amish has its own medical insurance and consulting hospital. Amish religion does not allow contraception, with an average of seven children per family and a rapid population growth.

/kloc-in the 0/8th century, the United States immigrated from countries in continental Europe, such as Switzerland, Germany and the Netherlands, and a group of people still maintained the original18th century tradition and refused modern technology. These people come from a faction of Christianity. They call themselves Amish.

They are independent social organizations, whose structural basis is not law, but religion and morality, and the Presbyterian Church adjudicates social disputes between them. Patriarchal elders in the family have absolute authority, and all affairs are decided by the father. They rejected modern civilization. Instead of electrical appliances, they use candles for lighting. Their daily necessities are handmade, and their clothes and food are made by themselves. The means of transportation is not a car, but a carriage or bicycle without a chain 200 years ago, that is, a car with one foot on the bicycle and the other foot on the ground (this is the real "bicycle"). Amish are self-sufficient farmers who refuse modern machinery and pesticides. They also use horse-drawn sledges that will be eliminated in rural China. This is a "surreal landscape" of American society with a high degree of agricultural modernization.

Amish people live strictly according to the guidance of the Bible. They are wearing the same clothes, and the men are wearing black hats and black suspenders. Men only keep the big beard on the bus and shave off the moustache on their lips because they think the moustache is related to force. Women all have the same hairstyle. They all tie a bun at the back of their heads and wrap it in white or black headscarves. Women all wear white skirts. Women don't have any decorations and cosmetics, even buttons, and their clothes are a bit like the Cultural Revolution in China. Amish believes that anything beyond the material nature will increase people's greed. For example, clothing is used to hide shame and keep warm, and the decoration of clothing goes beyond the purpose of clothing itself. Decorations can often stimulate people's desire for luxury, thus breaking the simple life of Amish people. So when you are in Amish village, you can't tell who is rich and who is poor, because everyone wears the same clothes. The most surprising thing is that their children's dolls all wear the same style and have no faces, because the Bible requires people to prohibit idolatry, and children's toys are not idols without faces.

Amish society is an independent kingdom, and religion is their spiritual pillar. They don't speak English between them, but only Pennsylvania Dutch (ancient Dutch). They don't have any literary reading except the Bible, so they don't have writers or plays. They don't accept public education, but only their Amish school. They don't join the army, vote or participate in politics. Amish people have no social entertainment, no music, and little interpersonal communication (a bit like the X family in China in the Spring and Autumn Period). Amish people think that these activities will make people want and greedy. They reject anything that is divorced from life itself, that is, anything that makes people daydream and feel happy spiritually. These people actively resist modern civilization, and their lives are still in the18th century. When you are in it, it's like crossing and just visiting, going back to 300 years ago.

/kloc-At the beginning of the Reformation in the 6th century, a "re-baptist movement" was launched from Zurich, Switzerland, which was a branch of Protestantism and also originated from dissatisfaction with the corruption of the old church. The term "re-baptist school" means that these people advocate that religious baptism should be carried out after adulthood, because the essence of baptism should be a heartfelt voluntary confession of faith. Their main dissatisfaction comes from the state's control over religion. They believe that state politics is the root of church corruption, so they strongly advocate the separation of church and state. In this "Re-Baptist Sect Movement", the earliest group was the Hart Sect; ; Then, another community, the Mennonite, developed into the most powerful one (the Mennonite originated from the Mennonite, the leader of the sect), advocating practicing religious beliefs in simple and simple daily life and rejecting any activities related to the country, such as military service and holding public office.

One hundred and sixty years later, around the end of the seventeenth century, the Mennonites themselves experienced a sectarian division. A group of Amish people (headed by Jacob Oman) left the Mennonites to set up another portal, advocating greater separation from this world and returning to a simpler life. These people are mainly distributed in Switzerland, Germany and other central European regions (for example, Ms Amish, who sells quilts in Shipu Chehoine town, told us that their dialect is still mainly German). /kloc-At the beginning of the 8th century, these Amish people who only wanted to have a quiet space to practice their religious ideals suffered serious religious persecution in Europe. Protestantism and Roman Catholicism regarded them as heresies, and many people were burned to death and drowned.

Under the severe religious persecution, Amish people fled Europe and came to the New World. 1767, he got together and settled in Pennsylvania. (Because william penn provided a piece of land in southeastern Pennsylvania to build a new home for the Amish; Payne is the founder of Pennsylvania. He is a Quaker himself, and his territory is also famous for its religious tolerance. I think these immigrants should also be closely related to the term Pennsylvania Dutch. The Dutch here are not Dutch, but Germans and Swiss who immigrated to Pennsylvania. This nation is famous for its well-organized farm and rural skills. Later, Amish people gradually spread to the remote rural areas of the midwestern States of the United States: Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and other States have traces of their social groups. Not far from Chicago, two counties in northern Indiana (Elkhart County &; It is said that Lagrange County is the third largest Amish community in the United States.

Bad dictionary says Amish is a "Mennonite Sect". In fact, although Amish is a branch of Mennonite, there are still obvious differences between them. The biggest difference is that the Mennonites do not exclude the use of various facilities and tools of modern technology in daily life, but Amish people refuse to use these technological products that modern families have long relied on: there are no telephones, televisions, radios or any modern household appliances at home; Go out without a car, but take a traditional carriage or bicycle instead of walking; Farming life only depends on traditional power, such as water power and wind power.

Most Amish people's lifestyle choices are based on religious reasons. /kloc-At the beginning of the 0/8th century, Anabaptist, a sect in continental Europe, moved from Germany and Switzerland to North America because of persecution by Catholicism and Protestantism, and settled here. The teachings of this Sect require it to be isolated from the whole society other than the religion, forming the Amish's isolated lifestyle.

Amish people have their own schools, usually only one classroom, and unmarried Amish women must be teachers. Amish children are prohibited from receiving education in external schools. Amish school only allows children to attend the eighth grade, which is similar to the first grade of our high school. And mainly teach English, German, Bible, and the most basic arithmetic. Amish school prohibits the teaching of physical chemistry, biology and other natural science courses, and does not offer other social science subjects. In the case related to 1972, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that Amish communities are not bound by the mandatory provisions in the Compulsory Education Law that require minors to receive education beyond the eighth grade.

If Amish youth decide to leave the Amish community as adults, they need to go through a reflection period of several months so that they can seriously consider and make a prudent decision. During this period, people who want to leave still live in their own homes, but they are forbidden to participate in any group activities, and no family members talk to him or prepare food for him. Many people flinch in the face of such an isolated test and give up the idea of leaving the collective to which they belonged since childhood.

In fact, what is worrying is whether those young people who grew up in Amish community, only received some basic education and only knew how to engage in agricultural production with primitive farm tools, if they decide to leave Amish community as adults, will have enough knowledge and skills to survive well in the outside society.