Short Essay On Amish Culture

The Amish culture has a very unique lifestyle and is dictated by rules. The “rules” are known as ordnung in which they outline the basis of an Amish lifestyle and faith (Hostertler 1993). These ordnung helps identify what it means to truly be Amish. The ordnung dictates a person’s dressing, hair length, schooling, technology, and important farming techniques. Amish clothing is very different from the world we live in. The clothing is an expression of their faith. The Amish style is known to be very simple but very functional. The cloths are known to be made at home of plain fabrics and very dark in color, such as shades of purple, blue. wine, brown, grey, and black (Hostertler 1993). The younger kids get the lighter fabrics and summer shirts and dresses are for the adults. The Amish culture believe that’s technology may weaken their family’s structure (Hostertler 1993). Certain devices such as televisions, telephones, and automobiles are signs of inequality which can lead the Amish away from their close knit community and is not accepted in most orders (Hostertler 1993). Majority of the Amish is known to …show more content…
Before deciding to fully join the Amish church for life the teenagers have a chance to leave and adventure and experience life by drinking alcohol, taking drugs, and having sex. Once they have explored both options then they have a choice to leave the community or stay (Hostertler 1993). The Amish calls this period rumspringa which mean running around. During this time the parents act as if they are blind and see nothing. This time of age is also known as devils playground which they are also allowed to go to the mall and stay out all times of the night. Once the teenagers are done exploring the devils playground about 85% to 90% of them return to the Amish ways and join the church for a lifetime (Hostertler