Christian+-+CD+-+SP13


 * __Name:__  Issac **


 * __Gender:__ Male **


 * __Culture:__ Amish, (specifically, Old Order Amish) **


 * Culture details: **
 * Language used includes Low German, (for everyday chatter), High German, (for church services), and English, when talking to those not of the faith/culture
 * Values: That which is mentioned in the Holy Bible and the set of rules known as the Ordnung. Such rules include being pacifistic, loving thy neighbor as thyself, never making graven images, being modest
 * Beliefs: To follow the word of the Lord, as it is written, (Christianity rules, to be exact), and the rules of the Ordnung. It is forbidden to take pride in one’s appearance, therefore no photography.
 * Behaviors: Pacifistic, farming/rural life, each member of an Amish community relying on other members of the community, NOT using modern technology, rather living as life was during the 1800’s before electricity was harnessed. Women tend to dress in a prayer attitude/design. Men who are married have/wear beards. There are 5 groups/divisions of Amish. Old Order Amish, New Order Amish, Beachy Amish, Conservative Mennonite, and Mennonite.


 * How these characteristics would be beneficial: **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Pacifistic means non-violent whatsoever. Therefore, no conflict or war between neighbors, or people.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Each member of an Amish community relies on the rest of the community when ill/sick or unfortunate events occur to them. Therefore, everyone is helping each other for the benefit of each other.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Love thy neighbor as thyself”. Therefore, no hatred between technical brethren since ALL humans are technically relatives, (maybe not directly/immediately, but all are), according to the word of God.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">No use of technology or ecologically destructive contraptions such as automobiles, prevents/diminishes pollution and preserves nature. Also, by living a simple, non-technological life allows one to connect with nature and the Earth more easily in a decent symbiotic way.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">ALL sins/sinful actions are NEVER ignored. Therefore, criminals, or those who break the rules of the Ordnung, are shunned, or neglected. As in, any sinful action, does not go unnoticed in an Amish community, unlike in a non-Amish community, where there’s bribery, fraud, threats, and such.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">If everyone is modest, then jealousy and envy, as well as opinion-based superiority, are never, or at least not, present. Therefore all are truly equal in their own actions/roles. No one boasts of their job/role, or what they did. Also, if one is modest, then they are also honest.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Each group/division of Amish folk live by slightly different rules on level of tolerance/strictness. Therefore, if you don’t like living completely like it was in the early 1800’s, (Old Order Amish), you may switch to New Order or Beachy Amish, (the latter of which is allowed to drive/operate tractors with steel wheels and black, [only black], cars).


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Factors that’d be considered undesirable: **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The fact that the style of living is like that of the past, not the present.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Mainly no electricity or technology used at all, aside from that of the early 1800’s.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A strict set of rules that apply to clothing.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">One may not take pride in their own appearance, no matter what.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">No form of defense/protection, that would be considered decent.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Mainly everything being done through physical labor.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Culture’s history/origins:__ **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The beginnings of the Mennonite and Amish beliefs and practices date back to the Protestant Reformation in Europe, centuries before today. In 1525, the Anabaptist movement began. Soon enough, the first Amish immigrant left Switzerland and settled in America, specifically Pennsylvania. As numbers spread, Amish communities developed in states such as Iowa as well. **