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This 3 page paper discusses how the Amish have managed to retain their culture, how that relates to their social status within the larger population, and what it takes for any group to remain separate.
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the two. Early immigrants to America often came with the idea of "fitting in" as quickly as possible; later arrivals have tried to maintain a separate identity. But
there is another segment to consider: those who have been here for centuries but have remained apart: the Amish. This paper discusses how the Amish have managed to retain
their culture, how that relates to their social status within the larger population, and what it takes for any group to remain separate. Discussion The Amish have managed to
resist assimilation by "taking an isolationist or separatist orientation toward other cultures. They practice resistance to outside influences, particularly those of the state, perhaps more strongly than other ethnic or
cultural groups" (Reiling and Nusbaumer, 2002). On a national level, the Amish have won the right to be excused from compulsory military service; they do not participate in Social
Security; and they do not provide schooling for their children beyond age sixteen (Reiling and Nusbaumer, 2002). On a state level, the Amish in one Indiana community have
engaged in "generally successful periods of resistance to state regulation on a local level, such as displaying slow-moving vehicle signs on their horse-drawn buggies, running road-protective surfaces on their buggy
wheels and horse shoes" and complying with "public health inoculation programs, as well as compliance with other public health regulations" (Reiling and Nusbaumer, 2002). The members of the Indiana
Amish community that Reiling and Nusbaumer describe believe that aside from changes in their occupation, from farming to industry, "few of their cultural practices have changed throughout their 500 years
of existence, even as the dominant cultures in which they were embedded have changed dramatically" (Reiling and Nusbaumer, 2002). They state that although there have been changes and modifications
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