Amish Intimate Society

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The Amish: An Intimate Society

In author’s article “The Amish : An intimate Society” ,author claims that Amish is a unique self-contained community in the United states which is a religious group that break away from the Swiss Mennonite church.
“Amish Country” is loos to be world away, Amish farmers use horses instead of reactors, I think it is not good ,because using horses is not convenient and poor efficiency to work with farm , on the contrary ,tractor has high efficiency. Lancaster Country is original, I think it is good to give people a sense of reminiscent.
Amish life is based on divide form the world and obey to their religion teachings and leaders. Religion and discipline are the glue that holds the Amish together . Rejection of concerns provides the foundation. It is a
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In Amish , people are not allowed to divorce. It is good way to avoid sadness and have happy family, personally ,I think all major events hold at home is great way have a happy family, they eat together, talk together, share the happiness together. The Amish parents have right to take their kids out of school after eighth grade. It is not a smart way to educate children, because study is the most important for children. People have knowledge, people will improve. They believe that violence and personal self-defense are not good. In my opinion, violence is bad ,because it will hurt someone or something. And I do not think self-defense is bad, people should protect ourselves, self-defense is a smart way to keep away from dangerous.
The Amish cannot against all changes . The Amish that when a man work away from the home, life will be changed have no time with his children. I think a man should go out and have his own work.
In accordance with the main points above, I have to say that an intimate society is not just stay in a mind, people should study something new and people will

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