Amish The Plain People Analysis
Amish "The Plain People"
Relgion and Culture
Jule England
Beth McIlvain
Indroduction to Interpersonal Communication 102
August 30,2013
I done my intercultural Experience Assignment on the Amish, considered to others “the plain people”. I met with some of the Amish and I had a very interesting experience. When I met with one of the families in Cross Plains, IN, I had a list of questions that I was going to ask them. At this time I was when I found out that the Amish do not answer any kind of questions because to them it is against their religion and culture. So therefore I could not ask them the questions that I had written down so I had to observe for myself to get the answers for the questions …show more content…
The Elkhart-LaGrange community average of seven children per Amish family. Both Allen and Daviess counties with eight children per Amish family and the Swiss Amish settlement at Adams Country with a whooping of nine children per family. “A study by Hurst and McConnell found an average family size in Holmes County, Ohio of five children, though this figure includes families which have not completed their fertility cycle, and thus would be lower than one taking into account only completed family (Amish Parados, Husrst and McConnell)”. (An Amish Patchwork: Indiana’s Old Orders in the Modern World, Thomas J. Meyers and Steven E. Nolt and Amish Paradox: Diversity and change in the World’s Largest Amish Community, Charles E. Hurst, and David L. McConnell) “John Troyer, who lived near Kokomo, Indiana, had and unusually large family, perhaps the largest of all time among the Amish and Mennonites. John was the first married to Catherine Schrock who bore him twelve children, following her death he married her cousin Caroline (Schrock) Kendall, a young widow with two children. John and Caroline in turn had seventeen additional children. This made a total of thirty-one children. (Joseph, Stoll “Amish and Mennonite Family Names”, Family Life, March
Relgion and Culture
Jule England
Beth McIlvain
Indroduction to Interpersonal Communication 102
August 30,2013
I done my intercultural Experience Assignment on the Amish, considered to others “the plain people”. I met with some of the Amish and I had a very interesting experience. When I met with one of the families in Cross Plains, IN, I had a list of questions that I was going to ask them. At this time I was when I found out that the Amish do not answer any kind of questions because to them it is against their religion and culture. So therefore I could not ask them the questions that I had written down so I had to observe for myself to get the answers for the questions …show more content…
The Elkhart-LaGrange community average of seven children per Amish family. Both Allen and Daviess counties with eight children per Amish family and the Swiss Amish settlement at Adams Country with a whooping of nine children per family. “A study by Hurst and McConnell found an average family size in Holmes County, Ohio of five children, though this figure includes families which have not completed their fertility cycle, and thus would be lower than one taking into account only completed family (Amish Parados, Husrst and McConnell)”. (An Amish Patchwork: Indiana’s Old Orders in the Modern World, Thomas J. Meyers and Steven E. Nolt and Amish Paradox: Diversity and change in the World’s Largest Amish Community, Charles E. Hurst, and David L. McConnell) “John Troyer, who lived near Kokomo, Indiana, had and unusually large family, perhaps the largest of all time among the Amish and Mennonites. John was the first married to Catherine Schrock who bore him twelve children, following her death he married her cousin Caroline (Schrock) Kendall, a young widow with two children. John and Caroline in turn had seventeen additional children. This made a total of thirty-one children. (Joseph, Stoll “Amish and Mennonite Family Names”, Family Life, March