The Amish are a group of people living mainly in Pennsylvania, Indiana and Ohio in the US. Modern technology and smart phones are something the Amish try to distance from, since they live a really simple and modest life. They have a strict dress code, and they wear old-fashioned clothes. For example aren’t they allowed to wear sneakers, jewelry, jeans and belts.
The word Amish originates from its Swiss “founder”, Jakob Ammann.
When the Amish youths turn 16, they get the chance to live like a normal young American. Afterwards, they choose if they still want to be an Amish, or if they want to be living like an American.
The Amish people have severe rules, and if they get broken, the people breaking the rules get shunned, for instance by shaving of the beards of the men and cutting of the women’s hair.
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