Are There Any Black Amish People?

[Dawn]

after looking at video 2 i can see how they get start to get negative images of black people.  of course they have a black mother of more than 1 child and she has never been married, and to make matters worse the mother says she doesn't want to get married to man until she's 100% sure because she doesn't want to get a divorce (yet she can have multiple kids and not be married nor be with the baby daddy anymore). 

[Dawn]

Are There Any Black Amish People?

i like that video.  i found it extremely interesting...i didn't think i would.  it was so interesting that i'm now in the middle of watching part 2.  it's weird to me how the amish teenagers seem to know so much about city life.  what i mean by that, is that they don't seem overly surprised by anything, as if they had already heard of these different things and/or seen them.  although, they've never spent time around black people, they seem to be pretty comfortable with them...at least so far.  oh, one more thing that i found strange is that the amish teens speak american english as if they are from another country.

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Amish World's Squarest Teenagers part 2

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Are There Any Black Amish People



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Are There Any Black Amish People



I was watching this documentary on youtube about the rumspringa, a time when Amish youth get to temporarily leave the community and experience the "outside world." I was intrigued that the Amish teenagers were living with a Black British family. One of the Amish teens said that she had never really gotten to know any Black people, so she was curious.

 I wondered why they would choose a Black family...I was wondering if maybe they were trying to show a complete contrast to what they were used to, but at the same time I was worried because I hoped that they didn't associate immorality strictly with Black people. In one scene, one of the Amish teens finds out that the mother of the kids they're living with was never married and you could just tell she was completely shocked by it. I just really worried that they would be getting stereotypes of Black people.

I also wondered why they didn't go to say...Philadelphia and meet some Black people there. I wonder if there are any Black Amish people.I know there are some Black Mennonites and even some Mennonites who adopted black children during the civil war... but Amish I never heard of that. Sometimes Amish youth leave the Amish community during Rumspringa and choose to remain in the "outside world." It stood to reason that if Amish people haven't interacted with black people much they may or may not have some preconceived stereotypes, but then again, if they're not exposed to the media and all the negativity including portrayals of Blacks as criminals, maybe they have a fresher perspective.



see video below-

Amish World's Squarest Teenagers part 1

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Are There Any Black Amish People