Origin of the Amish and Anabaptists: America's Strangest Religion
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- Today let's take a look at arguably one of America's strangest religions, the bearded men of the Amish and Anabaptists faiths. We will be going over the origins of the Amish, Mennonites and other Anabaptists in the European continent and their journey from Siberia, to the American frontier and even to the depths of the Amazon rainforest. From Pennsylvania to Bolivia, the Anabaptists continue their unusual luddite form of Christianity that prohibits them from using many forms of modern technology and the ramifications for this cultural microcosm in the future of the US, Latin America and elsewhere.
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One time at the Amish farmers market I saw an Amish kid, maybe 17, wearing a football team hat. I asked him "Arent you not allowed to watch TV?". He smirked and said, "Sometimes I sneak off to my friend's house, he has a TV". An Amish rebel.
17 is not a kid anymore, childhood ends at 13
@@biomuseum6645The loudest people are always the most wrong. Amish tradition does not consider boys to be men until the age of 17-21. Whoever told you the age was 13 lied to you. And you're gullible for believing it.
@@biomuseum6645 Id say it's more like 16 when childhood ends.
@@thechromeassasin9517 I would say childhood ends when you have to be independent and hold a steady job
@@robertgarduno937 I mean childhood in the biological sense.
I’m 18 and from Illinois. Growing up, every summer we took a trip to go see our Amish cousins in Eastern Illinois. I don’t know how it worked exactly, but my branch of the family never “broke away”, more just married out. This would’ve happened with my great great great grandfather in the late 1800s. Anyways, whenever we go and visit our Amish family there’s always a newborn every other year. Keep in mind my Amish family is more akin to a clan of a few hundred people than a single family. There are 3-4 families of several hundred people and inter marriage is common between them to avoid inbreeding. I love my Amish family. They’re great people just like the rest of us and I hope to continue to see them flourish.
Fun story- I live in a medium sized city of ~100,000. When I was 5 or so about 25-30 members traveled to central Illinois from the east to visit us. I remember one night we went to a Chinese buffet for dinner. Imagine walking into a restaurant and seeing almost three dozen Amish men, women, and children trying to get Chinese food. Kinda bizarre now that I look back on it.
what's their usual reaction if u show them modern tech like smartphones or computers? just curious as someone from asia in the other side of the world
@@xXxSkyViperxXx They actually know about all of the modern things that we have. Many of them use cellphones and computers for their businesses. Generally they keep modern devices to a minimum as it helps them maintain a life devoted to The Lord, and to not become obsessed with worldly things. Hope this helps 👍🏻
@@sawyersprott what about Bible apps and the christian devotional apps and modern christian praise and worship song bands
@@xXxSkyViperxXx Hellsong?
@@kelsey_roy Hillsong?
I had never considered the possibility of an Amish apocalypse as all biomass is gradually converted into more Amish.
The good part , they would stop the climate change v:
Good ending :)
Would like that ending
Amish Gene-stealer Cult!
"Livin in an amish paradise"
I think that we can easily define the Amish as an Ethnic group because they have specific cultural features: they are not only a legacy of Anabaptism in the US, they are also the Heirs of a German culture that disappeared even in Europe itself.
Right being amish is a lot to do with ethnic heritage and the pride it brings. Also it's easy to make your own kind of anabaptist group just of a different background. I have italian family that are like amish people.
Beyond just the cultural features, they have distinct genetics, because of their low rate of marrying outside their group. They also suffer genetic conditions at rates different than the general population because of the founder effect, just like French Canadians and Ashkenazi.
And they’ve been secluded for a very long period of time
To be honest they remind me of people from Attack on titans lol.
I'm pennsylvania dutch, and all my ancestors are from France and Switzerland. Where I live in Pennsylvania none of the dutchmen I grew up with considered themselves germans. They're their own thing.
I know Amish people have their problems, but a life of hard work, fresh food, going to church, and prioritizing family doesn't sound awful.
Finally you've returned we've all missed you never leave us again
He is good but it would be more convincing if he posted his resourcees, it gives credibility as a researcher.
@@mik823 the sources for this video is in the description
@@golddustwoman4993 you are surprisingly correct. It looks like Mason has decided to list his sources after much pressure from me to do so. Now all Mason has to do is post his resources for all his other videos especially his video titled from slaves to conquerors. That video is of particular concern. I have requested Mason to post his sources many times but he flat out refuses. Watch a video titled The Slavs: the myth of the docile peasant
@@mik823 Are you sure you didn't just forget to check if he listed any sources on that video? Maybe you just assume he didn't, just like you did with this video
@@sirkkusalomaa4644 no I didn't. Why don't you check out the video for your self before you comment? It makes you look like a fool...This is actually the first video he has ever listed his sources.
I lived in Central Pennsylvania for a number of years, and got to know a few Amish there. They have an encyclopaedic knowledge of farming techniques; soil types; weather patterns; and wildlife, especially wild plants. They were well-travelled; flying (yes, in passenger jets) to both Europe and China, where they bought the straw hats they wore in summer. I found them to be introspective, wise, and with a thirst for knowledge. I would often find them at the town library, where they’d research various fields of knowledge, and read E-versions of old texts, usually of a religious nature. At the Reading Terminal Market, I have seen Amish young people with mobile phones. Their father explained: “They’re teenagers; what can you do?” Each Amish community makes its decisions as to which aspects of the modern culture they’d adopt. I should suppose not many allow their adolescent kids to have smart phones, though!
You would be surprised how many of them have smart phones.The older ones use only flip phones though.
@@daleeloph6888 In NE Ohio some Amish would stay in public school up to 8th grade, and my Amish friend and i would play psp with a LAN connection in study hall. He had a ps2 in the barn, and got a smart phone before i did. Basically, as long as it wasn't in the house, God isn't worried (it's different in other Amish communities though). There was even an Amish guy who learned to program CNC machines by himself on the computers at work. The more time you spend around Amish people, the harder they are to explain
@@restitvtororbis5330 Yes that is were I am from NE Ohio Middlefield to be exact were they all ride scooters but in Holmes County Ohio they are allowed to ride bicycles.
@@restitvtororbis5330 see, the Amish I've met are very familiar with tech but wouldn't use it for anything that isn't considered productive or educational. Considering I watched one girl get busted by her mom for playing Solitaire on her break... possibly the most innocuous of games. I feel like there's a growing chasm between those who want to find loop holes and those who say don't go looking for trouble.
yeah John Kempf is an Amish guy and he has one of the largest regenerative ag agronomy practices in America. and he has PhD level understanding of plant pathology from library books. Interestingly he doesn't allow his picture to be taken or appear in webinars so he attends them by phone
There's a lot to learn from the Amish and related groups. They examine technology critically, adopting things that will enhance the community and rejecting that which is harmful.
They reject war.
They retain strong family and community connections.
i guess one modern technology they adopt is the rubber tired wheels like in 8:32 instead of just preserving the use of spoked wooden wheels
@@xXxSkyViperxXx , yes. Different communities adopt different technologies.
@@BartAnderson_writer i wonder if they use gas as well for like generators or whatever machine at their farms then, i wonder if electric engines come to replace those, if they'd switch to that too and have like solar panels or wind turbines instead
@@xXxSkyViperxXx Many communities will have a landline telephone for emergencies and business, but you won't find teenagers using it to talk to their friends. Many Amish farmers have diesel tractors because it allows them to significantly increase farm output, and they may even have a few passenger vehicles for trips to the hospital and other important things. Most Amish will focus on hygiene, healthy lifestyle, and herbal remedies for healthcare, but they are not opposed to modern surgery or medicines if someone is injured or has an infection. Some have electric lighting, but you won't find televisions or radios in their homes. Some even have computers, but they are used strictly for business or, in some cases, education.
The point of the Amish lifestyle isn't so much a rejection of technology, as it is opposed to the influence of worldly things over the mind and body. They believe in living lives dedicated to God, and they rightfully understand that too many modern conveniences and distractions will interfere with that. They also strongly value hard work, so why would they want labor-saving devices?
There is indeed a lot to be admired, especially as the rest of Western Civilization spirals around the toilet drain of history. They reject decadence and so they are immune to much of out civilizational decline. However, I don't have high hopes for them if the rest of civilization collapses. They are uniquely suited to survive most apocalyptic scenarios, with all the skills to survive and thrive in a low-tech world. But without the protection of the modern civilization around them, they will be prone to predation thanks to their pacifism. If the SHTF, I just hope some locals who don't follow their religion will provide protection in exchange for food, or something like that. But in this fallen world, the neighbors of the Amish are just as likely to take everything from them and maybe even kill them outright. Basically, I admire almost everything about them except their pacifism. Aversion to violence is a good thing, but a refusal to commit violence in defense is a recipe for eventual disaster.
My cousin lives in Central Pennsylvania. Several years ago an Amish farmer came up from Lancaster and bought 3 farms and paid in cash.
Several million dollars in cash. For all their quirks and isolation they are VERY hard working resourceful and successful.
what does several million dollars in cash look like? like a whole chest or several briefcases filled with cash? then they came in with a horse cart carrying it? that sounds like back in medieval times or somethin
@@xXxSkyViperxXx He said it was 1 briefcase 💼
@@chrisoleary9876 That must have been a big briefcase 💼
sounds made up story
@@widjiro you’d genuinely be surprised
I can totally imagine the Amish and Anabaptists becoming some of the first to settle planets in our solar system like Mars and Venus, what a story that will be.
Considering they want to be left alone, I could see them being some of the first to sign up for it. And the Amish are pragmatic, in that they do not reject technology outright, they just reject all but the most necessary technology to survive. Some Amish are beginning to allow flip phones and electrical lighting. Likewise in a theoretical Martian Amish colony, they would adopt all the necessary tech to survive and expand on Mars, but no more.
@@DiMacky24 Yeah you would need to convince them to fly on planes first. They wont. I was just at an Amishman's house today. He owns a website and runs a business, has full electric in his house, ect. But he wont fly on a plane. Amish do not fly. Its a thing in their religion too. God didnt make man to fly so man was not meant to fly. Man can swim so boats are fine, but planes are not. Its actually a myth that Amish reject electricity.
Most have full electric in their houses. But they generate it themselves. They wont rely upon the grid. Thats the divide.
There are lots of SciFi stories involving, or even centered around interstellar diasporas of Amish and similar communities. They either contracted a ship to take them to their new home where they continue to live traditionally, or they were forced onto the ships.
@@phatpigeonii what are some Amish sci-fi stories you’d suggest?
@@Private-Potato I've only read a couple of short stories and it's been years so I don't remember the names. But I've seen others around. I remember seeing one book on the Kindle daily deals page called Pennsylvania or something (Pennsylvania is the name of the planet). It never particularly interested me, I read SciFi for interesting ideas about tech and what it means to be human (and hardcore military action), so the Amish-themed stuff never really interested me too much.
That said, the Honor Harrington series by David Weber HEAVILY features a system and planet called Grayson, named for the founder of a Christian sect which abandoned modern technology, was essentially exiled from Earth, then found themselves on a hostile planet where they couldn't survive without technology. They also had a breakaway sect which they in turn exiled (ironically to a much more hospitable planet) who are kind of like the Wahhabist terrorists of today. If you've never read Honor Harrington, I recommend it, but only if you have a LOT of time to spare - it's like the Wheel of Time series in scope, and still ongoing (though approaching the conclusion I think). Weber is a true master of world-building, and the society of Grayson is fascinating and actually believable.
Another great SciFi book which features an Amish analog group is "Slow Train To Arcturus" by Eric Flint. This is a truly excellent book centered on alien contact with a a slower-than-light colony ship from Earth carrying various "outcast" groups, each in its own massive self-contained spherical ship. Groups include the last groups of libertarians; the descendants of the North Koreans (the Kim family and a core of his people anyway); anarchists whose main hobby is killing and eating each other; a female-supremacist matriarchal society (based on the writings of Susan Sontag) where men are treated like women in Saudi Arabia; and a Christian group which has rejected technology and even forgotten (hundreds of years into the voyage) that they are on a spaceship. The 3 main characters are a man from the Christian group, one of the aliens sent to make contact, and a woman from the feminist society. This was a truly great adventure story in a hard SF setting, and I highly recommend it.
A similar thing is occurring with the population of Yiddish speaking Hassidics in Suburban New York which is growing at a rate of 50-60 percent every 10 years. They've had a lot of friction with the locals though due to doing things like enforcing gender segregation
I came here to say something similar to this too, it’s really interesting to see, especially down along the jersey shore region (Lakewood, Jackson, Toms River, Deal, and Oakhurst specifically). Only instead of horses it’s minivans lol.
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Liberty NY
I think of the Old Order Amish as the rough Anabaptist equivalent of the Hasidim, the New Order Amish being more like Habad Hasidim, the Old Order Mennonites being more like Ultra-Orthodox Jews who aren't Hasidic, and the New Order Mennonites being more like Modern Orthodox Jews. (Full disclosure: I myself am Modern Orthodox Jewish.)
@@yodorob Its an apt comparison, thanks!
My neighbor Mose doesn’t remember how many grandchildren he has. His wife says she thinks it’s 67. And most of their kids are still in their childbearing years.
I once met an Amish woman who, in the breath after telling me she had five kids, proceeded to tell me she loves kids but had a medical condition that prevented her from having any more (because obviously everyone must be wondering “why only five?”)
I'm from western Canada and lots of my childhood friends were former Mennonites. We even knew some former Hutterites. They have amazing food haha.
Mennonite sausages are supreme! Easily one of the best local foods in Western Canada.
Hutterites?
@@YaakovEzraAmiChi they are a similar ethno religious group. They are primarily in western Canada.
Yes our Hutterite food is🤌😂
I live in a county with a large Amish population. They are much, much better off in almost every sense than their average non-Amish counterpart. Imagine the quiet desperation in almost every non-Amish household struggling with a pile of credit card debt, mortgage, hefty car payments for some metal boxes in the garage, both parents working 40+ hours a week, student loans, failed family, etc... the non-amish society is a total landfill fire, dude.
The Amish spend their time and energy on building up productive assets and a family. The non-Amish piss their life away on garbage sold to them by Hollywood and the corporate world and start off life with a mortgage sized student loan tied to their neck. All that foolishness has been like a giant trap for the people of the western world. The Amish just passed it by merely by being skeptical. If that's "strange" we need a lot more strangeness.
The world would be such a fantastic place if, I could only read more comments of this wisdom on the internet in general
I used to think these people were crazy but now as a Christian man I wish I could have been born into an Amish household. They live simple lives but what else matters besides God and family.
@@illegal.anglo88 They are living the dream man. They do accept converts.
we live in a world of fake value. Value of food, value of houses, even now value of virtual house in the metaverse. The financial strugle is made up and intentional .
@@illegal.anglo88 convert and join?
I live near a major Amish hub and these guys are definitely branching out into blue collar work as well as small business ownership. Their strategy works better than everyone else's and so they will continue to expand and grow their wealth as we experience downward mobility and our birthrates plummet. Many Amish are millionaires too
Well, many Amish families are millionaires because many family farms are, on paper, millionaires, but the realities of how much of that wealth go back into the farm is actually pocketed as profit is a different story.
I wish them all the best.
@@DiMacky24 there's some rich ones and also they have farmers markets, ice cream shops, mini golf courses...then again I can't tell the difference between Mennonite and Amish. Anyway their lifestyle accommodates saving and intergenerational wealth
@@yerusalem4832 The lines can be hard to draw, I grew up Mennonite, there is a symbiotic relationship between Mennonites and Amish.
@@DiMacky24 how about the Mormons? do they have a relationship too with Amish and Mennonites?
As a society, we've left so much behind in our constant march forward.
Our families are fragmented, everyone is always busy and in a hurry, we can't stop to appreciate much.
There is a lot to be admired about the traditional and simple life.
I have respect for these groups of people.
@@joelaut2605 I love ne some beans too
Interesting stuff, 2 of my great grandparents were actually Mennonites that fled from Ukraine in the late 1920’s
Same! Mine from crimea slecifically!
An Amish majority America isn’t that bad of a fate when you consider all the other possible fates this nation may face.
i really like how your content is becoming more filled with jokes and personality, love this change
didnt know females like this channel
@@eatinsomtin9984 bro what lmfao
@@eatinsomtin9984 go outside jesus christ
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Growing up I worked on a farm in rural southwest Minnesota every summer. The local Hutterites would come with their horses and carriages and sold us honey, fruits and vegetables, jams and jellys that they had produced. Very fascinating and friendly folk.
This is very interesting, you have one group of people that are completely separated from society and are growing like crazy, though even then, it would take hundreds of years for that to make a large societal impact
Yes, their birth rate will continue to be high but it will drop in the next few decades and centuries similar to what happens to Mormons and Haredi Jews and Wahhabi Muslims. And then there's the fact that they spread in the future we'll see small Amish communities in Georgia, North and South Carolina, Alaska and Louisiana and also Australia and New Zealand, maybe some group will move to Ireland and other groups will spread out. for Latin America with countries such as Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Colombia, Uruguay and Ecuador; Namibia and Botswana and South Africa could be attractive to future Amish and Mennonite groups.
all this could make it take more than 300 years for them to become some significant minority anywhere in the world.
@@gabrielsilva-pl3dx Amish do not use planes period. Mennonites will. Amish will not, ever. They would have to be EXCEPTIONALLY liberal Amish (By Amish standards.) to fly on a plane. Ik plenty of Amish who use the internet and have full blown websites but they will not fly, ever.
Source: I live in Amish Country.
@@npswm1314 why do they use the internet but not go on a plane?
@@joatanpereira4272 Flying on a plane serves no practical purpose for them. No where a plane will take them is of any use to them they dont see why its necessary. That and they dont believe Man was made to fly. God didnt give Man the ability to fly so there is little reason to ever do so. Boats are fine because Man can swim.
@F.W. Amish are also huge small business owners they dominate construction where I live, and heck when I go up north sometimes into New York there’s an Amish department store the size of a Walmart!
Amish growth is insanely fast. I have learned a lot about them and they are very interesting! Good to see you back to making videos!
Yes, i hope they keep growing
@@eatinsomtin9984 Why?
@@skillganon606 I've had many interactions with them, they are great hard working humble people generally speaking. They are like a light of hope in this dark world ✝️❤️🙏
@@nebhalabir1201 do you have any kids?
@@skillganon606 well I'm only 24 but as of now me and my wife have 2 amazing kids❤️. God bless 🙌
My maternal grandmother was Mennonite (born in Montana but at some point re-located to Rusk County, Wisconsin). Her mother was Amish.
This is why birth rate is one of the most important factors in preserving a culture.
Side benefit of Amish expansion: more Pennsylvania Dutch restaurants. Living in Central Pennsylvania, I promise you, their cuisine is terrific. Hearty (gotta eat lots to do hard farm work), fantastic produce, delicious.
I've seen this in South Africa where the Bantu population exploded and all other minorities dropped from around 35% to 15% currently. Great work as always.
That's because the minorities are fleeing this now defunct country in droves.
@@zin153 there’s still a lot of white South Africans and cape Coloureds still there but within the next 20 years it’s gonna drop very heavily for sure
@@Dragoncam13 I know. There are far fewer whites still living here, and I am one of them. South Africa was once the jewel of Africa, the wealthiest country on the African continent, and now they cannot even keep the electricity on - we have up to 4 to 6 hours of electricity cuts a day.
South Africa is a perfect example of why removing the founders of a nation, from its seat of power, is never a good idea
@@zin153 Get out while you can and stay safe
They don't believe in birth control....but go into the world and multiply...so there number are growing..they are nice people.
I don’t know if birth control is prohibited, but they do value large families.
we are getting Mexicans Mennonites in Alberta lately.
Alot of Amish people here in Ohio. They're nice people. And they have good food.
I grew up in Dover Ohio, near one such community. I totally agree with your two comments.
I used to live in Pennsylvania and I would go with my family to an Amish market in Lancaster occasionally. The food was great.
@@meredithwhite5790 We visited occasionally. I love the quilts!
Amish people are cool, I used to go to them for vegetables at my local farmers market because they always had the freshest, best vegetables you could find probably anywhere. They also ran businesses in my city, little joints where they fried up chicken, fresh cut French fries and such. They were all PA based, very friendly people.
I for one welcome our Amish overlords
Yeah, they can't be worse than our current ones.
@@NeoDragoon159 Considering they dont run for election.
Ha. Amish will vote but never run for election. Ever.
@@npswm1314 do they have some sort of leader in their own community that they elect?
@@xXxSkyViperxXx I mean kinda? The local bishop/s kinda serve as like a mayor position. And its usually over a massive area.
@@npswm1314 sounds like those medieval bishopries in medieval germany before
Here in Honduras there are also some of those groups! I knew some Amish guys near where I live. And there is a town in the west of Honduras and this happens quite often in pockets of Latin america, where you find people with Germanic/Slavic features but with an unknown origin since white spaniards look very diferent. Some believe this people decend from Anabaptist groups that came to the most remote places of the Spanish Empire since it is well known that in times of the Holy Roman Empire the relations with Spain where very good and this people could have got to our territories without the Spanish knowledge or even knowing they where protestant. But now they are normal hondurans and have mixed a lot. But nothing like the US where this groups where definitely a majority!
Growing up between Delaware (state) and in Pennsylvania near Lancaster ( aka Amish country). I have seen and talked to as well as bought from the Amish many times.
I still remember as a middle schooler in DE waiting for the bus after summer school and talking to Mennonite. I asked "any chance you have the time?" And he pulled out this very old yet beautiful pocket watch and told me the time. Was a cool interaction. We spoke a little and that was it.
The Amish markets are the best. They make such great ice cream and pretzels and food in general! And then you'd have us modern folk selling from tables at the farmers market out front. I miss those days
Good people, the world could use more of them!
Glad you are back! I remember seeing some communities when I was travelling across Bolivia. I was so confused.
we can easily support 40 million of them
This North america is very big, and some will go to Latina America, Africa, Europe
keep em coming. Missed this type of content
I am so happy you are posting more recently Masaman. I love your videos!!
Glad to see you back in action, Mason. Keep giving us this good stuff.
It's a pleasure to see you post more frequently 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
Bless the Amish and the Mennonites! The meek shall inherit the land.
Very interesting video as always. It's a treat whenever i see a new upload from you pop up on my notifications
It would be really interesting to see a Fundamentalist Mormonism video from you as a sort of sequel to your Mormons video
My favourite ethno-religious group of all time. I envy their lifestyle a lot; whilst the rest of us have values and technology imposed on us, the Amish have stayed entirely separate. I, for one, welcome our Amish overlords in the next 200-300 years.
It's not imposed on you, you make your own choices, and excuses.
@@richardgray3112 the Amish do
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One important thing you missed is that after mennonites moved to Canada in the 1800s, when conscription came from the world wars, the avoid the conscription, the mennonites moved to Mexico to Chihuahua and Durango mainly. That's why they initially moved to Mexico. The Mexican government also have them an 100 year grace period of exemptions from conscription and federal and state taxes, but that 100 years ended recently if I remember correctly. So lots are moving back to southern Ontario where there is a very sizable minority. I know this all cause I was a mennonite in southern Ontario!
I think the Amish are wonderful people. I like their values which are largely lost on the American public. Whilst our modern day Americans stop reproducing in order to live the most hedonistic lifestyles possible, I am renewed with a sense of hope that people like the Amish continue to have children who value honesty, simple living, and look critically upon technology.
Yeah, it's hard to strike a balance when it comes to women's rights though. It has to be said that the Amish lifestyle sounds a lot more appealing from the male perspective. There are plenty of female Amish apostates who weren't really keen on the idea of being breeding machines. On the other hand, in modern society, there are loads of women who choose not to have any kids or even get married at all just because they" don't feel like it" and don't feel any sense of responsibility to reproduce. (That may be a very non-PC statement, but yeah, that's how I see it...) So perhaps we need to find a way to strike more of a happy medium between these two extremes.
@@eslnoob191 I'm not sure that the Amish women feel like breeding machines. That sounds like a projection. I am in contact with many women in traditional religious sects and they find major fulfillment in giving birth to large families. To assume that motherhood entails a "breeding machine" sounds like a worldview straight out of the industrial revolution. I'm a man but I can only take the word of mothers who very fulfilled. If the apostates wish to frame their apostasy as "freedom from breeding" then, hey, they have a right to that worldview but I think it's a fringe viewpoint.
@npickard4218 alot of American women want to reproduce but are infertile, or lost their only child. It's not hedonism in many cases
@@tomjones2157 disagree with you. Statistically, how many women are infertile or lost their only child?? 1%, less than 1% ? I don't know but it's got to be statistically insignificant so I 'll go with my original assertion that it's hedonism because you are relying on an outlier to make your point.
Could you do a video about the origins and genetics of the Romansh people, I’ve been trying to do my research but I didn’t find many studies about them.
I’m very curious about them, my father’s family spoke Romansh a generation ago, then they switched to German.
I’m half Romansh and half Cuban(Iberian).
Great video, keep it up
Yes
are they like catholic germans like austrians but kinda italian-influenced cuz theyre near italy and austria?
Brother you better try and learn as much of the language as you can
@@xXxSkyViperxXx No. They speak a rhaeto-celtic language and retain that culture. Culturally they're more closely related to Bretonnians, Galecians, Scots, Irish, Cornish, and Manx then they are to Germans, French or Italians. There's also frequent intermarriage with Yenish people because both groups are alienated from the wider hybrid German-French-Italian fission culture
What's Cuban(Iberian)? If you're genetically Iberian wouldn't it make more sense to exclude the nationality?
I foresee a future where the Amish colonize a planet like in Futurama.
In a country of strange religiosity, the Amish and Anabaptists are definitely not the strangest. I mean, they don't even have a founding book that keeps getting republished under different titles, like the 7DA do. Owenbroadcast/Owen Cyclops sometimes posts about his research on American religious demography.
I would like if you covered the Traveller groups of the Nordics (Finland, Sweden and Norway) and their differences. Especially Norway who at one point had 3 different groups who all had different ethnic backgrounds, identity and culture.
Where i can learn more
@@utente1489 Exactly!
Sidenote from a native swiss speaker:
"Dütsch", not the anglicised "dutch", is an old German version of the generic word "German".
In the used map (about 2:00), one can see a portion of the German speaking side of Switzerland (Zürich to Bern) marked as well, were that particular word is very much in use today.
Cheers, and thanks for the history lesson 😍🌹🍺
It's ironic that you characterize the Amish as non-conformists in relation to the wider world, considering that their lifestyle is largely defined by conformity.
I love Amish and at least we should respect that if they drink and drive their horses know how to get home safely.
It would be quite hilarious if, in 300 hundred years, instead of the average person living like the Jetsons the majority of the population lived as if it were the 19th century due to a massive population growth of the Amish.
So so glad to have you back man!
Man, missed your videos a lot! Welcome back!
I grew up in an area with Amish, Mennonites, and Old Order Dunkards (a different branch of Anabaptism, but with many of the same customs). Fascinating people!
There are Mennonites in Argentina, similar to the Amish.
This video came
In time, for as I recently been interacting with them, their craftsmanship and their way way of life is just amazing!
Your contents are amazing! Thanks for sharing with us.
I like them and am happy to see their population is growing. I hope it keeps that way.
I would be interested to learn more about indigenous Australians. It is so hard to find resources about them.
Masaman!!! Great to see you back! Love your videos💪🏻
Great vid, also it's great to see you back. Cheers.
I love the Amish this was so interesting thank you for sharing
100000 mennonites in Mexico? Wow, that's wild.
Greetings from Austria.
Glad to see a new video
loving the return!
Nice. Good to see some content from masaman again
I enjoy his content from an entertainment perspective.sadly as a person who takes history seriously i cant take anything Mason claims because he doesn't post his sources of information therefore his content is just that; entertainment to pass an idle mind....
For an advanced economics project, my team generated a "what if" scenario detailing Amish casinos, strip bars and distilleries. Doing some research, we found one (a casino with a strip bar and distillery). Not going to say where.
An Amish strip bar?!
So do you have results or are you just here to make us wonder?
You disappoint the internet.
A new video omg let’s go keep up good work
So nice to see you back Mason
What do you expect them to do without access to internet or TV? - Grow their population of course! 😁
Plenty of Amish use the internet, but mostly for business. They usually dont have TV though since that involves reliance on a Cable company and they dont like that. Strangely internet is fine tho?
I grew up near many mennonites and hudderites. They are skilled and hard workers, they are different from us natives but we both have a mutual relationship where we often make up a great deal of their trade and employment.
Though I having come from a plains native culture; the Blackfoot, I have a great respect, as well as some envy to the anabaptists way of life (besides the religious bits ofcourse) I will always regard them as fellow people who are always welcome on my homelands since my ancestors allowed them to settle after the hudderites asked nicely. I also have much respect for their language preservation and cultural preservation.
Thank you man. We missed you.
You‘re finally back!
Am from Maine, since that 2012 map we've gotten a couple. new settlements, such as in Whitefield. Also the Amish in the North could be quite present in the community. I saw them on the bus and at Walmart.
Oh and the family in Whitefield said they came here because the other settlements were getting too crowded, which might surprise some people.
The Amish and the Mormons seem to be harmless folks. If they wanna do their thing, let them do their thing. They're not forcing anybody into their thing and they seem to be good people.
mormons kinda do force people though, a lot of ex mormons see it as a cult
@@Asprawlol I'm kinda in agreement with the South Park mormon episode.
Yep, I think they're some kind of cult but if you think about it, all organized religions are cults in a way.
We do have some mormon missionaries here and they don't force people into their cult/religion. They'll politely knock and tell you if you want to know more about their faith but if you decline, they'll thank you and leave.
I have mormon friends and they're okay.
I'm kinda agnostic btw.
@@bigbadspikey fair enough, its just the main thing i take issue with it, is the control they have on peoples lives from forcing them to wear certain clothes to forcing marriage and excommunicating you if you leave, so you family cant talk to you or risk being excommunicated aswell. Overall i dont have any issues with mormon people, more those that control the religion
They are good people, i hope they take over the world
Great video.
Thank you for making this video! As someone descended from the Anabaptists, I feel a need to add my 2c.
Many of us in Canada who are descended from Mennonites, would call ourselves ethnically Mennonite (despite there being no factual basis in this being an ethnicity). Many of the former Mennonite settlements would say that they are Mennonite, but no longer maintain the faith outside of its pacifist belief system - we don't eschew technology anymore!
So - when viewing statistics of "There are this many Mennonites in Canada", it has to be taken with a grain of salt. Most of us are just as connected as anyone else is, these days!
Ethnicity is not synonymous with race, it just means a people have a common feature like language or culture, it's a highly contextual term and this, there is amole basis for considering the Menonnites an ethnic group. Though depending on how you define it, you can be descended from Menonnites and not be Menonnite.
most of south eastern manitoba is menonite but not really in practice. They are probably more religious than the rest of the population tho
Honestly excluding all the religious traditions, the Amish got it right. I visited an Amish family over the summer and it was just so amazing. These people live simply but they have everything they need. It was a stark contrast from the big city I live in, where everyone is in a never ending cycle of stress and urgency. I also really value that they produce their own food, because I find the worlds way of producing food for scale absolutly backwards.
You need to have religious traditions to have all of that at a societal scale, otherwise people become nihilistic or money-hungry.
If you like it, you should find a mennonitr congregation near you and join, God Bless
Love the channel, but you have some very basic facts wrong. The Amish & Mennonites originated in Switzerland as the 'Swiss Brethren'. Mennonites separated from the Amish over doctrinal & dress issues. Persecution by the Swiss drove them to areas like the German Palatinate & the Netherlands etc. The first in migration to the Pennsylvania colony began around 1740 or so. Those immigrants & other unrelated Anabaptists sects became what were called the "high Dutch" meaning they were German dialect speakers from the mountainous upper Rhine areas as opposed to "low Dutch".
That is the basic problem with this video. He uses Amish and Mennonite interchangeably when they are not the same and even came from different parts of Europe. They are related but not the same.
I'm no expert, but looking at Wikipedia, it seems that the Amish (the followers of Jakob Ammann) broke away from the Mennonites in Switzerland, but the Mennonites (the followers of Menno Simons) originated in the Netherlands. There's another Swiss bit in the story, because Anabaptism (at least one form of it) started in Zurich, branching off from Zwinglianism.
My ancestors were from Switzerland and then moved to Germany and the Netherlands before moving to Pennsylvania etc.
Really helpful video
They were right. They are right about everything. The way they live is what we should all strive for.
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania has a big Amish community. It’s a nice place to vacation if you’re looking for a relaxing slow paced vacation.
If anyone happens to read this keep in mind that this video has many mistakes and although well intentioned does not provide a good picture of Amish or Mennonite views and often confuses the 2 as interchangeable when in reality there are many, many different sects with completely independent ideologies that arise from each group. There are super duper conservative Amish that don’t have indoor plumbing and there are super liberal groups that call themselves “amish” who drive cars and go to foreign countries. There are super duper conservative Mennonites who only speak German and refuse to involve themselves with outsiders at all and there are super liberal Mennonites who love to make it a point on how “modern” they are and who actively seek out converts. One thing is for sure: the more conservative a group is, they hardier it is to assimilation. More liberal groups almost uniformly stop being “Amish” or “mennonite” after some time, maybe a couple generations. Meanwhile the conservative groups grow by leaps and bounds due to high birth rate and lower defection rates.
They very sensible...and peaceful people
I've always respected the old orders. They eschew interest, raise their children well, and honor time tested techniques for enriching their soil and maximizing their yields.
Finally your back 😍💕💕💕💕💕
So interesting, I enjoy many aspects of their lifestyles.. power to em! If you'll pardon the pun.
Im glad your back man, theres been a masaman drought 😪
He is good but would you not agree that if one makes historical claims you need to validate them by posting your resources? 🙏
I wouldn’t want to be Amish and I wouldn’t want the Amish to take over but it’s nice that there’s a community out there who are maintaining the old ways and thriving.
The Amish and Mennonites are the only good ending of the protestant puritans character arc that America opened with
to my algorithm: this channel is lit
I live in western Oklahoma and we have plenty of Mennonites out here, my cousin converted. I think they're really friendly people
Sometimes I wish I could become Amish. Life would be much more simple. Perhaps harder work, but more simple.
If the Amish Rolled in and became the majority in my area I’d probably be happy to join up and raise barns for the rest of my life
Very informative
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