Early Sunday morning, the younger daughter of a large family mobelix of Miller - 8-year-old Anne and 11-year-old Eva wash over a large basin, pouring himself turns out artfully painted pitcher. mobelix Then put on a festive black clothes and go down to the kitchen, where they are waiting parents and five brothers. All in black.
Every Sunday, they, like their neighbors, the Amish of Lancaster County (which is in the state of Pennsylvania) go to church. From a distance, it seems that over the corn field circling crows - it stems above the height of a man wide-rise men's hats. And if the occasional clothes ordinary people colored with bright colors, and Sunday is a long-awaited holiday, when you can finally relax with friends over a glass of beer and go to the movies, then the Amish the smartest color - black, mobelix and the Sunday service in the church - the main event. Photograph Amish prohibited because they believe that the images can be used "evil"
Mennonites and Amish - a breakaway sect of Protestantism that arose at the end of the XVI century in Holland. The main difference from the basic Christian doctrines that they reject mobelix the baptism in infancy, as they believe that faith should be taken consciously. After the mass persecution of about five thousand Amish emigrated from Germany and Holland to the New World, and now lives in America, more than 230,000 Amish. Lancaster County is called - Amish Country (Amish Sountry).
The meaning of the teachings of the Amish is Ordung (order), Gellassenheit (obedience) and Demut (humility). They managed to create a kind of agrarian states of the Sun - all are equal, all the same, no poor or rich, all the same work on the farms. Controls each community council of elders, which meets once a year, or for emergency cases. Until now, the Amish do not get higher education and study in secular schools. Kindergartens and not - kids engaged in turn parents, grandparents, aunts, mobelix older brothers and sisters.
Kids of all ages go to one general class (which differ only in the height of the bench and desks), and ends with the formation of the eighth grade. Unlike the Mennonites, the Amish are more conservative, do not use any achievements of civilization, do not serve in the army, did not appear in court, does not use the services of doctors, not on government service and do not receive a pension - in other words, limit contact with the outside light to the maximum. There is even a language mobelix boundary between the Amish country and the rest of America: sectarians have not switched to English, keeping the German-Dutch dialect, which is here called the "Pennsylvania German." Children learn English in school, but between them speak the language of their ancestors.
Do Amish have a huge advantage over the other sects, yes, perhaps, to other religions too. Because they recognize the baptism in adulthood, mobelix then give their children the freedom to choose. When young people mobelix reach adulthood, they leave for a year in the "big mobelix world" and live among ordinary people. Of course, as the natives of the Amish country is not very educated, they can claim only the simplest job (for example, cleaner, usher or babysitting), but they will learn how other people live. During the year it is not forbidden to dress in modern clothes, go to nightclubs, try alcohol, flirting with the opposite sex, to visit theaters and even strip bars - in short, to do everything they do their peers in the civilized world. Only the views of each civilization - their own.
- I tried the way you live, went to Philadelphia, was in New York - said Carl Miller. - At first it was fun, and then I began to wonder. My new companions always somewhere in a hurry, discussed how to earn more money. You are constantly in search of, you desire to overcome, and when you finally get what you want, then immediately seek to the next. This unquenchable thirst. And I used to be happy with what I have, and I aspire only to improve the soul, no more. Every morning I go to the farm, my wife is home, our children are healthy - what else do I want?
According to statistics, 80 percent of young men and women return to their communities, are baptized, married and continue to live the usual life of their ancestors. Those who decided to stay in my own world, expelled from the community forever, communicating with relatives - parents, brothers, sisters - is prohibited, mobelix and the family departed presumed dead.
Head of the family mobelix Miller, Carl, as his five sons, dress up, as befits a respectable Amish: pants with suspenders and a shirt and suit indispensable complements wide-brimmed hat. To work in the field - a straw hat, well, the church - black felt. Women always go to the dresses of dark colors with aprons and bright or black (depending on the situation) caps, covering the head and knotted under the chin tesemochkami.
Clothes worn by Anne, Eve, and their mother, Rosemary ode to the common man
