Medical Sleuth Tom Shachtman, Smithsonian, Feb. 2006, Vol. 36 Issue 11, p23-30 IT WAS EVERY PARENT'S nightmare: a few days before Christmas 1999, Elizabeth and Samuel Glick, Old Order Amish dairy farmers in rural Dornsife, Pennsylvania, an hour's drive north of Harrisburg, found their youngest child, 4-month-old Sara Lynn, gravely ill. They rushed her to a local hospital, from where she was soon transferred to the larger Geisinger Medical Center in the next county. There, a doctor noted a hemorrhage
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Meister University of Phoenix Masters of Human Service Culture and Psychology February 16, 2014 Final Project I have chosen a collectivistic culture which is the Amish culture. A few details regarding the background of the Amish culture is they are most concentrated in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Indiana with 273,700 adults and children and nearly 350 settlements in thirty states of the USA and in Ontario (Kuhnova, 2012) The Amish culture tries to live in nonconformity to the world. This is demonstrated
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Analyzing Cultures The amish aren’t like the rest of today’s standard American society. They don’t necessarily adopt the norms of others and they don’t intend to in the near future. This makes them a very unique subculture in today’s world. The documentary we watched in class, The Devil’s Playground, does a really good job of portraying the differences between our culture and the amish culture. For example, the documentary talked about how teenagers would get the opportunity to form a counter
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com/examples-of-pluralism.html refers to a society, system of government, or organization that has different groups that keep their identities while existing with other groups or a more dominant group. Rather than just one group, subgroup, or culture dictating how things go, pluralism recognizes a larger number of competing interest groups that share the power. Pluralism serves as a model of democracy, where different groups can voice their opinions and ideas. Pluralism in Real Life * Many
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The Amish People Theresa O’Donnell ANT101: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology Instructor: Geoff Wood May 16, 2012 The Amish People “The Amish people are an offshoot of the Mennonites, a religious group that was established in 1525, in Zurich, Switzerland” (Dana, 2007, p.1). These people came to America in 1683 in search of religious freedom and to escape European persecution. The Amish is named after Jakob Ammann, a man who “felt that the Mennonites were straying
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Franciscan Values in Action As I was contemplating on what to write about on Franciscan Values one thing would always come to mind, the Amish schoolhouse shootings in Nickel Mines, PA in 2006. A gunman killed five girls in a brutal attack on the school. I remember thinking how horrific it was and how I could not comprehend how a human being could be so violent and evil to be able to do that to young children. Then come to find out they actually forgave the gunman and held no grudges against his
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ways culture affects child-rearing practices. Culture and child rearing are both essential in child development. Culture and ethnicity can have a deciding effect on the child-rearing techniques that families implement throughout the world. Differences such as methods of discipline, expectations regarding acceptance of responsibilities and transmission of religious instruction will vary among different cultures. The paper will include facts and information from three very different cultures about
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The Amish (Plain People) Sylvia Todd Cultural Anthropology Jonathan Brooks March 17, 2013 The Amish or “Plain People” are quite an interesting culture. As agriculturist and craftsmen they live off the land and what they can construct. They grow, sell, and make the things they need and surround this by God. Their way of life including Kinship, social organization, healing and health, and beliefs and values greatly tie into the subsistence. The Amish are best known for their nineteenth-century
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many different cultures and many religions. Some of the cultures I have learned valuable information about, and there are other cultures that has peeked my interest. When we talk about cultural diversity in our community there is one major group that stands out in my mind, and it is not a group that is covered in this class. They tend to stay to themselves, very religious, and extremely family oriented. They are the largest diversity group that we have in the area, they are the Amish. The community
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diversity everyone will be same and there is no fun in being the same. You do not get to learn or experience different things. Knowing different cultures makes you open to new experiences, things and places. 2. What is ethnocentrism? In what ways can ethnocentrism be detrimental to a society? Ethnocentrism is the way you look at the world based on your culture or beliefs. Also when one thinks that their beliefs are better than others. I think ethnocentrism can be detrimental to society because you
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