Amish Cultural Analysis

Forces maintaining cultural differences: In Amish culture, there are distinctive forces that differentiate from the modern world. The Amish people believe the tradition is valuable and therefore, they should live their life in traditional way. They think that technology creates confusion to their lives and bring negative effects. To them, jewelry, makeup, and nice clothes are vanity and invaluable. Thus, there are no electricity, automobile, and wear plain clothes necessary. Additionally, they follow the practices and customs such as Rumspringa. As the film depicts the Amish culture, there is the aspect of masculinity versus femininity of Hofstede’s Cultural taxonomy in the Amish culture. In Amish culture, males usually marry to Amish woman, and they believe the husband is the head of the household and wives must be housewives doing chores. During rumspringa, Amish women are more reticent compared to the males. Most Amish women continue to wear traditional Amish dress, even while they are doing distinctively not Amish things. …show more content…
There were several documentaries I saw which relate to this film. In modern society, we live in the world where we neglect the past traditions and looking for new, and future traditions. I’ve seen some movement that people tend to live their life in minimal by reducing vanity. After I saw this film and people from modern society trying to live in minimal life, it is interesting to compare how both cultures (Amish and modern) look at each other and tries to find the different values of life. Also, the fact that they live in America, but live in totally different time period. I also found intriguing that some Amish people find modern culture pleasant while, people from modern society, looking to reduce all the