Hỏi về người Amish!

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Được YoutaMoutechi sửa chữa / chuyển vào 02:07 ngày 19/10/2006

người Amish em cũng ko rành lắm, nhưng họ sống trong cộng đồng riêng của mình, hoàn toàn cách biệt với thế giới bên ngoài. (Vụ giết học sinh trong trường học vừa rồi, cảnh sát phản ứng chậm vì không ai có điện thoại để liên lạc) họ không gia nhập quân đội (vì họ theo chủ nghĩa hòa bình), từ chối không nhận social security, trợ giúp từ chính phủ và được miễn thuế (cũng có thể nói là họ từ chối không trả thuế.)
Mỗi cộng đồng người Amish thường có trường học riêng, nhưng rất nhỏ, và thiên về kiểu dạy nghề. học sinh cũng chỉ học đến hết lớp 8, hiếm có trường hợp nào học lên cấp 3 hoặc đại học.
Người Amish có lễ trưởng thành (17 tuổi thì phải.) Lúc đến tuổi trưởng thành, họ được tự do trong 2 năm (?) muốn làm gì tùy thích ở thế giới bên ngoài, rượu chè, cờ bạc, trai gái... sau đó thì họ sẽ quyết định trở về với cộng đồng hay tách đi, và điều thú vị là đa số đều quyết định quay trở về (nguồn số liệu ko nhớ.) có 1 bộ phim tài liệu tên là Devil''s Playground làm về đề tài này.
Về vụ bắn trong trường học, dưới đây là 1 bài báo trên tờ New York Times 4/10/06
The Amish whose children were executed by a milk deliveryman in their rural Pennsylvania schoolhouse had, until Monday, lived in a world where they were largely insulated from violence and singularly unprepared to respond to it.
But their strong faith and community ties may prepare them unusually well to cope with it, experts on the Amish say.
In their one-room schoolhouses in Lancaster County, the Amish have no need for security officers or metal detectors. Their classmates are their siblings and neighbors, their teacher usually a young woman not much older than the students, who graduate after eighth grade. There are no phones to call for help. There is no electricity, perhaps just a battery-operated clock. A wood-burning stove keeps the room warm.
''''Violence in an Amish school is just unthinkable,'''' said Donald B. Kraybill, senior fellow at the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College in Elizabethtown, Pa., who has studied the Amish for 20 years.
''''These are really safe schools, in rural settings, out of the way,'''' Mr. Kraybill said. ''''These children have never watched television, never seen a movie, never seen a video game. They don''t in their minds have any images of violence, and there wouldn''t be any protocol in the school for what to do in an emergency like this.''''
About 28,000 Amish live in Lancaster County, and 200,000 in 27 states nationwide, Mr. Kraybill said. Far from dwindling, the Amish population in the United States has doubled about every 20 years because they tend to have many children. As young adults, they must decide whether to be baptized and stay in the community; 90 percent of them decide to remain, experts say.
The Amish are the descendants of Swiss and German immigrants who came to the United States in the 18th century, many to escape persecution. They are Anabaptists, and believe in adult baptism. They worship in homes rather than churches.
In their rural life, they are used to tragedy, said Tom Shachtman, a journalist who wrote ''''Rumspringa: To Be or Not to Be Amish'''' (North Point Press, 2006). Barns burn down. Families riding in horse-drawn buggies are hit by trucks. Farmers are maimed in accidents. Many of the large families Mr. Shachtman met had lost a child, some *****icide.
They accept these tragedies as the will of God, an approach to life they call yieldedness, Mr. Shachtman said. He said this helped explain why the Amish interviewed after the shooting in Nickel Mines, Pa., sounded more resigned than angry. They are pacifists, and some spoke of the need to forgive the killer.
In one sign of their approach to tragedy, Amish residents started a charity fund yesterday not only to help the victims'' families but also to help the gunman''s widow.
''''This is imitation of Christ at its most naked,'''' Mr. Shachtman said. ''''If anybody is going to turn the other cheek in our society, it''s going to be the Amish.''''
He continued, ''''I don''t want to denigrate anybody else who says they''re imitating Christ, but the Amish walk the walk as much as they talk the talk.''''
The Amish surmount hardship through mutual aid. When a barn burns, they do not call the insurance company. They have a barn raising, said Kimberly D. Schmidt, associate professor of history at Eastern Mennonite University, in Harrisonburg, Va., who has studied Amish women.
''''For the families who lost children, there will be a tremendous community outpouring of love and support,'''' Ms. Schmidt said. ''''They will not suffer alone in their grief at all. People will bring in meals for weeks. As devastating as this is, there''s so much strength they can draw from their community.''''

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Có lẽ tui xin trích cái link này từ trang chủ của Ohio Amish:
http://www.oacountry.com/Amish-History.htm
Trong đó đoạn đầu là:
The Amish people in America are an old religious sect, direct descendants of the Anabaptists of sixteenth-century Europe. Not to be confused with the term anti-Baptist, these Anabaptist Christians challenged the reforms of Martin Luther and others during the Protestant Reformation, rejecting infant baptism in favor of baptism (or re-baptism) as believing adults. They also taught separation of church and state, something unheard of in the 16th century. Later known as the Mennonites, after the Dutch Anabaptist leader Menno Simons (1496-1561), a large group of Anabaptists fled to Switzerland and other remote areas of Europe to escape religious persecution.
Như vậy thì dù đến từ Thuỵ Sĩ hay từ các nơi khác ở châu Âu, kể cả Đức, người Amish vẫn có nguồn gốc Đức, phỏng ạ? Tương tự như người Việt gốc Hoa khi di cư khỏi Việt Nam họ vẫn có nguồn gốc Hoa, cho dù cha ông họ đã đến Việt Nam vài trăm năm.
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