Amish people: kultur og livsstil

Amish people are spread out in 24 U.S. states and Canada. Amish people fled to the United States and settled in Pennsylvania, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa and Ontario. There are thousands of Amish people. Amish people are the fastest growing population group. Average births an Amish mother has 6-8 children, so that is probably why they are the fastest growing population group. they wear distinctive clothes; straw hats, dark shirts and trousers with braces for men and plain and modest dresses with bonnets or caps for women, and the men let their beards grow out when they are married and the women wear a black hat. When two Amish people get married, they married in their own community. There comes a stage in each Amish teenager's life, Rumspringaen. It starts at 16 years of age. The Rumspringa is a phase where an Amish teenager must decide whether they will be in amish society or whether they want to live life as a completely ordinary person. Therefore, they try some things that most normal teens do, such as drinking alcohol and smoking. Most Amish teenager who has gone through this phase usually always choose to stay in the community. When Amish people go to church, they gather all together down in a basement which is made clear with chairs, but there are not enough chairs so someone must stand up. in the middle of them all is a man of the people and reads aloud from the Bible. When Amish children attend school are aged from 6 to 14 ate old. Their school has only 1 room where all the students sit, and their teacher is usually always an unmarried woman of 18 years. The important thing for an Amish are fammilien, it is shameful not to show care for the elderly. An Amish fammilie spend much time together, such as sitting across fammilien overall when they eat, and after dehar eaten out a woman and the young ladies and continue to work on the house while the father and the young boys working in the workshop.