Amish Family Identity Essay
The first group we belong to, the family has more influence than any other group on forming our identity.
Dear diary,
Throughout my life in the Amish community, there is no doubt that I had learnt a lot, especially from my family who means a lot to me. Today I am 17 years old, the time when I am given the opportunity to make my life’s most important decision of living in the Amish for my whole life or joining the mainstream society, a whole new world, away from conformity and the restriction of self-expression. I am faced with the most difficult decision of leaving my family and loved ones to an unknown world and society where the way of life is completely different from the Amish society.
My first experienced in the backstreets of Philadelphia was …show more content…
His beliefs and values are completely different from ours, yet the fact of him fitting in our society, respecting our way of living, and adopting them increases my admiration for him even more. Nevertheless, no matter how much time he spent with us or wearing Amish clothes, he can never change who he really is in the inside. Having spend his life fighting crime and standing up for justice, John lives in an environment where violence is part of his everyday life and watching the bullies mocking and insulting the Amish was inacceptable for him, he had to take action. He is a good man who fights against crime and in spite of the violence involved; a part of me wants to do the same thing. I have the choice today of trying to be the saviour of many human life, of breaking all cultural barriers and reach out for the real world where I have the chance of being like John. But, that would mean to be excommunicated from the community; to abandon my mother and Grossvater, to a world stranger to
Dear diary,
Throughout my life in the Amish community, there is no doubt that I had learnt a lot, especially from my family who means a lot to me. Today I am 17 years old, the time when I am given the opportunity to make my life’s most important decision of living in the Amish for my whole life or joining the mainstream society, a whole new world, away from conformity and the restriction of self-expression. I am faced with the most difficult decision of leaving my family and loved ones to an unknown world and society where the way of life is completely different from the Amish society.
My first experienced in the backstreets of Philadelphia was …show more content…
His beliefs and values are completely different from ours, yet the fact of him fitting in our society, respecting our way of living, and adopting them increases my admiration for him even more. Nevertheless, no matter how much time he spent with us or wearing Amish clothes, he can never change who he really is in the inside. Having spend his life fighting crime and standing up for justice, John lives in an environment where violence is part of his everyday life and watching the bullies mocking and insulting the Amish was inacceptable for him, he had to take action. He is a good man who fights against crime and in spite of the violence involved; a part of me wants to do the same thing. I have the choice today of trying to be the saviour of many human life, of breaking all cultural barriers and reach out for the real world where I have the chance of being like John. But, that would mean to be excommunicated from the community; to abandon my mother and Grossvater, to a world stranger to