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1) Past two weeks I have become more aware of the different cultures that I was never been known that much before in my life. I learn a lot about Amish culture, values and practices, and the understanding Amish cultures is very important for history of Amish. The Amish is branch of Christianity and they originally come from Switzerland. The Amish emerged from Anabaptist movement in 1525, that are known nowadays as Mennonites and later on spread out all over surrounding cities and countries. This old and new Amish does not believe a government involving of religion and values. So that they were marginalized deported from the society, because of their refusal to following the authority the state church in matters of faith. The gender roles are very important in Amish cultures, men are the leader and provider of the family, even though the male and female share some of the family responsibilities. The Amish lifestyle is totally different from the tradition American lifestyles, Amish community have believed some guidelines that are called Ordnung which are adult baptism; separation of church and state. Couple areas of perinatal care that I want to discuss with Mary are the hospitalization of their and how it will …show more content…
Then Amish community is willing to talk to the health care providers about any issues that they want to discus with Amish people such how to increase the immunization rates in their counties which have large Amish

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