Amish families and communities maintain a more primitive lifestyle than the surrounding culture. Amish believes the extended family is a godsend. The amish rule allows only marriage among members of the Amish Church. Parents do not go to retirement facilities; they stay at home. The Old Order Amish avoids certain modern technologies and maintains a lifestyle without electronic devices and/or other conveniences.
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Family and personal life
Having children, raising them, and socializing with neighbors and relatives is the Amish family's biggest function. Amish believes the extended family is a godsend. The main purpose of "family" can be illustrated in the Amish culture in various ways. Family has authority over individuals throughout life. Loyalty to parents, grandparents, and other relatives may change from time to time but they will never stop. The church district is measured by the number of families (households), not by the number of people being baptized. The family takes turns organizing a bi-weekly sermon service. Parents emphasize their responsibility and obligation for proper parenting for their children. They consider themselves accountable to God for the spiritual welfare of their children.
Families provide members with status within the home and within the community. Someone is more a family member, not an individual. Each member has a job, position, responsibility, and status. Women have different tasks from men, with in-house tasks usually divided according to gender. Amish traditional families provide much education for children. Although formal education ends after they finish eighth grade, boys or girls are trained for their adult duties. The boys will work with the father in the fields, in the warehouse, and around the building. The girls work in the house and the garden, next to the mother. Homes and families become schools for training "at work". Amish youth, in general, see their parents working hard, and they want to help. They want to learn and be a productive part of the family.
Sports and recreation are shared by all family members. There are church events and family gatherings where activities are carried out and shared by everyone.
Child Discipline
Amish people emphasize strict adherence to their children, and this is taught and enforced by parents and preachers. Several passages in the Bible are used to support this view. Their children, like all children, may reject parents' requests. However, things like tantrums, making faces, calling other bad names, and general disobedience are rare because children are raised to adhere to strict social codes. Any ageless discontent is usually expressed verbally, but profanity is never permitted because a guilty child can expect a quick punishment.
Youth and courtship
The age for courtship starts at the age of sixteen (in some communities, the girl can be as young as fourteen). The most common event for boys' association is Sunday night singing; However, youths use bees to sew, play, and marry for other occasions. Singing is often in the same house or barn as the Sunday morning service. Teenagers can come from several nearby districts, thus providing socialization on a wider scale than from one church.
On the day of singing, and after the task is finished, the young man wore the used clothes, made a neat appearance, and made sure his train and horse were clean. A sister or sister may come with her, but usually not her boyfriend. While singing, the boys are on one side of the long table, the girls on the other. Everyone can announce their hymn choices, and only the faster ones are chosen. Conversations occur between songs. The formal end of the song is about ten o'clock, after which there is much talk, jokes, and traveling. Boys who have no boyfriend can pair with Maidel (female). After this, the boy took the girl home with her open famine car.
Marrying a first cousin is not allowed among the Amish, and the relationship of both cousins ​​is crimped, even if it is possible. Wedding with cousin "Schwartz" (first cousin after being removed) is not allowed in Lancaster County.
Wedding
Weddings are usually held on Tuesdays and Thursdays from November to early December, after harvest. The bride wore a new blue linen dress that would be worn again on other formal occasions. She does not wear makeup and will not accept an engagement or wedding ring because Ordnung prohibits personal jewelry.
The wedding ceremony itself may take several hours, followed by a community reception that includes banqueting, singing, and storytelling. Newlyweds spend a wedding night at the bride's parents' home.
Celery is one of the symbolic foods served at Amish weddings. Celery is also placed in a vase and used to decorate the house, not the flowers. Instead of taking households soon, the newlywed couple will spend a few weekends visiting friends and relatives attending the wedding.
Retirement
When the Amish people choose to retire is not a fixed time or a fixed time. A person's health considerations, family needs, and personal desires all play an important role in determining when a pension can occur, usually between the ages of fifty and seventy. Parents do not go to retirement facilities; they stay at home. If the family home is big enough they continue to live with others. Often there is an adjacent residence, called Grossdaadi Haus , where grandparents live. Retirees continue to assist in agricultural and in-house jobs, working at their own pace as they can afford. This allows them to be independent but not disarm them from family involvement.
The Amish pension method ensures that parents keep in contact with family and relatives. Loneliness is not a problem as they store meaningful social contacts through various community events, such as frolics, auctions, weddings, vacations, and other community activities.
If the elderly become sick or weak, then the women of the family take care of them.
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Lifestyle and culture
The Amish lifestyle is dictated by Ordnung (German, meaning: sequence), which differs slightly from community to community, and, in community, from district to district. What is acceptable in one community may not be accepted in another community. There is no lifestyle summary and the Amish culture can be really adequate because there are some common things that apply to all Amish people. Groups can separate things like hat hat width, buggy color, or various other problems. Tobacco use (excluding cigarettes, considered "worldly") and moderate use of alcohol are generally allowed, especially among older and more conservative groups.
Language
In addition to English, most of the Old Order of the Amish speak with a German dialect called Pennsylvania German or, more commonly, Pennsylvania Netherlands. Pennsylvania Germany is linked to the German Palatinate in the 18th century. It is also strongly influenced by American English. The English term "Dutch" originally refers to all forms of German and Dutch. Pennsylvania Germany, which is a German dialect, is different from the German Mennonite Low German and Hutterite languages ​​spoken by other Anabaptist groups.
Now spoken mainly by the Old Order of the Amish and the Old Order of Mennonites, Pennsylvania Germany was originally spoken by many German-American immigrants in Pennsylvania and its suburbs, especially those who came before 1800. There are also some fairly large Old Order communities where the German varieties Switzerland is spoken, not Pennsylvania Germany. The Beachy Amish, especially those born sometime after 1960, tend to speak English at home. All other Amish groups use Pennsylvania Germany or various Swiss German languages ​​as the language in their group. There are small dialect variations between communities, such as the Lancaster County and Indiana speech varieties. The Amish are aware of regional variations, and sometimes have difficulty in understanding speakers from outside their own areas.
Clothing
The common theme among all Amish clothing is simplicity ; clothing should not attract the wearer's attention by cutting, color, or other features. Clutch hooks or eyes or straight pins are used as fasteners on clothes instead of buttons, zippers, or velcro. Locked used on everyday clothes, and plain buttons for work shirts and trousers. Historical restrictions on the keys are attributed to their traditions and potential for pride. In all things, its aesthetic value is innocence. Some groups tend to limit the color to black (trousers, dresses) and white (shirt), while others allow muted colors. Dark blue denim clothing is common in some groups as well. The Old Order of the Amish often sew their own clothes, and the work clothes can become quite worn and patched with use.
Woman wearing a long dress plain calf with solid color. Aprons are often worn at home, usually, white (usually for unmarried ones) or purple or black (for married ones), and are always worn while attending church. A robe, consisting of a piece of triangular fabric, is usually worn, starting around the teenage years, and attached to an apron. In the colder months, long woolen robes can be worn. Heavy hats are worn over the prayer covers when Amish women are out and about in cold weather, with the exception of Nebraska Amish, who do not wear hats. Girls in some areas may wear colored hats until the age of nine; older girls and women wear black hats. The girls start wearing robes for church events and dress up at around the age of eight. Single women wear white robes to church until about age thirty. The everyday robe is colored, suit dresses, until about the age of forty when only black is used.
Men usually wear dark trousers, some with dark vests or coats, suspenders (in some communities), wide-brimmed straw hats in the warmer months, and black hats in the cold months. However, some, mostly teenagers, may deviate from this habit of conveying one's individuality. Married men and those over forty grew their beards. Mustache is prohibited as it relates to European military officers and militarism in general. The beard can function the same symbolically, in some settings of the Old Order of the Amish, as a wedding ring, and mark that part into adulthood.
Furniture
Amish furniture is furniture that is marketed as made by Amish, mainly from Ohio and Shipshewana, Indiana. Generally known as made of 100% wood, usually without particle board or laminate. Amish-making furniture is often a skill through many generations. Because the Amish belief prevents the use of electricity, many of the tools in Amish shops are powered by hydraulic and pneumatic power run on diesel generators. No furniture is identical with the others because of the care taken to choose wood. The grains are different on each piece of wood, and the artisans often try to highlight the features of each section.
Music
Amish music mainly comes from Germany, including an ancient singing style not found in Europe. Sacred music comes from modern hymns originating from the German culture of Pennsylvania.
Singing is a major part of the Amish churches and some songs take more than fifteen minutes to sing. "Lob Lied" is a famous Amish song. It was always the second song sung at Amish church services and often sung at Amish weddings.
The older Amish song is monophonic, without meters, and displays a tone that is pulled out with slowly articulated ornamentation. Normally, there is no harmony in music. Pennsylvania spirituality is more contemporary and encompasses a wide range of influences. Although some Amish learn to play traditional instruments such as harmonica or accordion, the instrument is not played in public. Thus, singing is usually unaccompanied.
"Singing" or "Song", attended by young people approaching married age. They are usually held in the barn on Sunday nights after the service and are an important element in Amish courtship practice when young participants are encouraged to engage in social discourse among the songs.
While singing in churches in German, singing outside the church more often in English than in Pennsylvania Germany, though the Amish knows many traditional, worldly Pennsylvania German songs. The most popular player of Pennsylvania's German songs is John Schmid, who is also very popular among the Amish.
References
Further reading
- Trollinger, Susan L. (2012). Selling Amish: The Tourism of Nostalgia . Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN: 9781421404196.
External links
- Harmony Workshop - Amish Music
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