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Originally Posted by Superbelt
They are inbred, and becoming moreso because they have been marrying between the same limited number of families for tens of generations.
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1) recent studies have shown that inbreeding isn't as dire as you might think. After all, royalty has been inbreeding for hundreds of years in Europe and I don't see any of them walking around with 3 arms.
2) This effects you how?
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Their concept of shunning is well known. Once you do something that displeases them, they go out of their way to avoid you forever.
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This effects you how?
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I've 'worked' with many amish for a year when I was working with the Soil Conservancy in Lancaster. To say they were resistant to changing horrendous farming practices is an understatement. With few exeptions they won't even listen to you.
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This effects you how? In reality it's only going to effect THEIR fields. And since they aren't looking for the mega-yields the corporate farmer wants, they're not gonna give a damn.
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Their women have little rights. Are forced wrap themselves and cloister almost as bad as Burkha'd muslim women.
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1) Bullshit. They wear dresses. When they go outside they wear bonnets. No face-hiding hoods, and if you see their wrist or their ankle, no one gets mad.
2) This effects you how?
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Their opinions are discounted out of hand, they have no say in the direction of their family or community. Husband is master.
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This effects you how?
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They treat human life with little regard.
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Yes we all saw that the other day as they cried and comforted each other after the kids were shot.
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I read in the Lancaster New Era every month or so of a father who sent his young son into a thresher to clean out a jam and then closed the bin and went to work, forgetting about the child inside.
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Idiotic examples that have plenty of parallels in other societies. Remember a couple of years ago when dads were leaving little kids to cook to death in the car all day? Guess that means regular American society has little regard for human life too.
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Gruesome deaths like that are common. Children should not be used as such in heavy farm machinery.
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Nor should they be left in minivans all day.
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They see no need for English courtesies.
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Why should they? They're not english.
Oh, and. . This effects you how?
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Their lives are purposefully dour.
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yes, they believe in being plain. This effects you how?
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Their children, because they are so different are treated badly by 'our' children.
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Then our children should stop being such collossal assholes. Or perhaps their collossal asshole parents should step in and maybe, I dunno, teach the kids about diversity?
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In addition to that, they see our kids living bright, carefree lives in comparision. This makes the kids pretty hardened against us.
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Seems like the reverse is true- - you're pretty bloody hardened against the Amish.
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You find the occasional nail in a board near amish communities on the road.
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You find that ANYWHERE. Kids are assholes no matter what culture they're in.
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And groups of kids occasionally throw things at lonely passing cars.
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Wow, kids from the rest of America NEVER throw things at cars do they?
Your examples are, so far, utterly asinine.
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I'm not saying this all second hand. This is all my own experience with the community.
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That's nice. most of it doesn't effect YOUR life in the least, and the stuff that does is perpetrated in even greater numbers by members of non-Amish America.