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An American Subculture This 6 page paper considers the factors that make Amish teens a distinct subculture. Rumspringa and other aspects of Amish culture are discussed. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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are placed on them. The result is often a subculture of adolescents that are distinguished from the mainstream by odd characteristics in their dress or behavior. Consider, for
example, punk rockers or the so-called "goths" who stand out from the mainstream in their dress in particular. Other subcultures, however, while definitely distinct, stand out more in their
struggle to stay within their societys social expectations than they do in their struggle to rebel from those expectations. An excellent example of such a subculture can be found
among the Amish people. The Amish, of course, are a multifaceted group but they are distinct from mainstream American society in a number
of ways worth noting. The people that we know as the Amish originated in Europe. They were members of the Mennonite Church which migrated to the
United States, primarily to the Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana areas, in the early 1700s. They were the spiritual descendants of the 16th century reformer Menno Simmons (Hostetler, 1993).
In 1697 Jacob Amman set out the major values for the Old Order of the Amish fold (Hostetler, 1993). The primary beliefs of the Amish revolve around the Bible,
the major tenets of which include adult baptism, separation from the world, simplicity in all worldly things, and agrarian-based subsistence patterns (Mackall, 2008). By tenet, therefore, the Amish become
a subculture in American society. Their teachings encourage that they remain distinct and separated from the mainstream world (Stevet, 2007). Although there is considerable interaction between some Amish
individuals and the outside world, there is still a very distinct air of separation in these interactions (Stevet, 2007). Amish adolescents, by the very fact that they are adolescents,
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