Amish communities
Buggy-driving traditionalists
Amish communities are settlements of Amish people—members of a traditionalist Christian sect that originated in 18th-century Switzerland and Germany.
These communities, concentrated in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana, maintain separation from mainstream society, rejecting most modern technology and emphasizing plain dress, farming, and mutual aid.
The Amish community raised a new barn in a single day.
- GelassenheitSerene acceptance of circumstances
- Lancaster CountyPennsylvania region, plain communities
- Swiss BrethrenEarly Anabaptist movement
- farmingCultivating land for food
- barnAgricultural storage structure
family farm · Anabaptism · mutual aid · elders · shunning · simplicity · prayer cap · Rumspringa · Hutterites · pacifism · horse-drawn buggies · Pennsylvania Dutch · bishops · communal meals · beard · humility · suspenders · forgiveness
- religious organizationsBaptist churches, congregations, Methodist churches, Methodist Church, parishes
- Rural Americafarm, barns, heartland, countryside, Midwest
- collectivespair, duo, trio, quartet, quintet
- isolated communitiesmountain towns, desert tribes, remote villages, fishing villages, monastery
- planned communitiesplanned towns, subdivision, new towns, model villages, garden cities
- Jefferson CountyJefferson County, Jefferson, Birmingham, Hoover, Fairfield
Amish communitiesSilicon Valley
Bay Area tech corridor
tech hubs · smart cities · transhumanists · early adopters · cyberculture
Amish communitiesconsumer culture
Society organized around buying
Beverly Hills · Dubai · keeping up with the Joneses · hyperconsumerism