Do the beliefs and values of the amish culture lead them to have a better quality of life than people in britain?

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Introduction

Within this assessment I will be answering the Amish culture and beliefs Question. I will be explaining the culture of the Amish and there beliefs leading them to react the way they do and the English culture and there beliefs leading them to act in a multicultural way. Later on I will be talking about who has the better way of life.

Amish history

Until 1517 all Christians were Roman Catholics then in 1517, Martin Luther led the protestant reformation against the corruption of the Roman Catholic Church. This was first break in Christianity. Then in 1525 the new protestant faith was split because some Christians didn’t believe people should be baptised until they were adults. They were called Anabaptists, later still the Amish (named after Jacob Amman) split from the Anabaptists (1693) because they wanted to include foot washing and shunning in their worship. The Amish were often persecuted in Europe, so migrated to the USA in the 1700’s where Amish communities still exist today.

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Amish way of life

The Amish men wear hats, straw for work and black felt for worship. The Amish women wear bonnets and they both wear plain clothes, dull colours, no patterns and married men have beards, single men don’t, their bodies fully covered, no make no or jewellery, hooks and eyes on there jackets no buttons and they all must not be hochmud. They do this because of there beliefs, some of there beliefs are. They do not compete with each other, or with god and Amish are Christian fundamentalists.

The Amish all do different jobs the men would ...

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