Amish

For the most part, no. Pennsylvania German (once called Pennsylvania Dutch) is a different dialect, bordering on being a different language. But with a lot of patience, they can cross the language barrier fairly easily.

An unopened bottle of Pennsylvania Dutch egg nog will be good for up to seven months. This variety of egg nog contains alcohol.

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English people thought they heared the Germans say Deutch, so they thought they were Dutch.

yes, in kent there are 4-5 Amish families. one county has 3-4 Amish families and 3 counties have one Amish family

An Amish community in New South Wales can be found in Nabiac, near Forster.

The Amish draw their cuisine from their Swiss-German roots. Being an agro-based culture, their meals are very fresh and do not have the over processed products that the rest of North Americans have on their tables. They bake their own bread from the grains grown in their fields and churn their own butter from the milk of their dairy cows. Their meals are basic but compared to caloric and fat content, the food does have a tendency to be high in those contents. However, being a people of the land they work very hard every day and one will never see a member of their community classed as obese. If you have a local market like I do that has Amish or Mennonite farmers selling their wares at it, but their eggs. Trust me when I say that those eggs are the freshest and best you can get anywhere on earth. Every item that goes on their dinner table has been hand made from scratch in their kitchen.

As I walk through the valley where I harvest my grain

I take a look at my wife and realize she's very plain

But that's just perfect for an Amish like me

You know, I shun fancy things like electricity

At 4:30 in the morning I'm milkin' cows

Jebediah feeds the chickens and Jacob plows... fool

And I've been milkin' and plowin' so long that

Even Ezekiel thinks that my mind is gone

I'm a man of the land, I'm into discipline

Got a Bible in my hand and a beard on my chin

But if I finish all of my chores and you finish thine

Then tonight we're gonna party like it's 1699

We been spending most our lives

Living in an Amish paradise

I've churned butter once or twice

Living in an Amish paradise

It's hard work and sacrifice

Living in an Amish paradise

We sell quilts at discount price

Living in an Amish paradise

A local boy kicked me in the butt last week

I just smiled at him and turned the other cheek

I really don't care, in fact I wish him well

'Cause I'll be laughing my head off when he's burning in hell

But I ain't never punched a tourist even if he deserved it

An Amish with a 'tude? You know that's unheard of

I never wear buttons but I got a cool hat

And my homies agree, I really look good in black...fool

If you come to visit, you'll be bored to tears

We haven't even paid the phone bill in 300 years

But we ain't really quaint, so please don't point and stare

We're just technologically impaired

There's no phone, no lights, no motorcar

Not a single luxury

Like Robinson Caruso

It's as primitive as can be

We been spending most our lives

Living in an Amish paradise

We're just plain and simple guys

Living in an Amish paradise

There's no time for sin and vice

Living in an Amish paradise

We don't fight, we all play nice

Living in an Amish paradise

Hitchin' up the buggy, churnin' lots of butter

Raised a barn on Monday, soon I'll raise anoder

Think you're really righteous? Think you're pure in heart?

Well, I know I'm a million times as humble as thou art

I'm the pious guy the little Amlettes wanna be like

On my knees day and night scorin' points for the afterlife

So don't be vain and don't be whiny

Or else, my brother, I might have to get medieval on your heinie

We been spending most our lives

Living in an Amish paradise

We're all crazy Mennonites

Living in an Amish paradise

There's no cops or traffic lights

Living in an Amish paradise

But you'd probably think it bites

Living in an Amish paradise

They feel that it is a threat to traditional family life.

It all depends. Many Amish children attend rural public elementary schools and study the same curriculum as their classmates. If Bible classes are offered in on or off school property, they may attend these.

If they attend a rural private school, their teacher is probably young and unmarried, with no teaching experience outside the Amish grade schools. He or she may not be Amish, however. School is taught in a one- or two-room setting with a basic curriculum of reading, writing, and arithmetic. Some Amish schools may offer history or science.

All classes are conducted in English, which all Amish children learn by the time they are finished with first grade.

There are more than 100,000,000 bibles world wide.

This is the study of cultural transmission within the Amish community typically falls under the social science of anthropology or sociology. Researchers may examine social rituals, educational practices, family dynamics, and community norms to understand how cultural values and traditions are maintained and transmitted across generations within the Amish society.

Nearly all amish can be traced back to a small group of immigrants. Given the nature of their closed community, they share many common ancestors. With very few outsiders joining the Amish community, they lack the diversity to marry anyone who is not in someway related to them. As a result they suffer from a disproportionate number of genetic disorders. Through education programs such as those of the CHC in pennsylvana, the CDC in Ohio and the CHC in Indiana most Amish are aware of the Genetic issues and the cause within their communities. As a result, many Amish do try to avoid marrying a close relative when possible. Marrying a third or fourth cousin is common, but in smaller communities there is often little choice.

Yes, they dance. They are very skilled in the pop, lock, and drop it.

They don't believe in using such things because they feel it creates vanity and competition throughout their community. They are afraid that once they let things like electricity in their community, people will start trying to be better then others.

No. She lived in Poland, Ohio

No more than you do...

Because it threatens their hold over you - they have to have the "upper hand"

Because it threatens their hold over you - they have to have the "upper hand"

Amish quilting is a specific style of pieced quilting, in which the design of the quilt depends on the arrangement of repeated geometric shapes. The fabrics used in traditional Amish quilts may be any color except pure white, and only solid-color fabrics may be used; Amish style quilts do not include patterned fabrics. The "Amish quilt square," might refer to a design that consists of a single square-within-a-square, with or without additional borders, or it might refer to any Amish quilt made up of multiple quilt squares. See the link below for photos and further information.

Certain forms of transportation are considered too "worldly," and thus, are often changed to be more in line with beliefs. In the case of bicycles, they are somtimes modified to resemble a scooter, which are acceptable in many Amish communities.

The Amish have no problem with electricity, but they worry about what electricity can bring to their homes, such as radio, television, and other things that may connect them with the people they consider "outsiders." They want to be as little connected with "outsiders" as possible. However, some Amish bishops allow a few families to have electric lighting.

The Amish don't use the internet.. soo you probably won't be able to