Material and Nonmaterial Culture
Material culture
- Simple clothing: pants, button-down, suspenders for men. Long dresses, apron, bonnet for women.
- Long hair for women and beards for men
- Farm
- Bible is way of life
- Reject modern technologies, some will use cars, planes, phones, computers when needed.
- Speak "Pennsylvania Dutch" (a mix of English and German)
- 1 room schooling only until 8th grade (math, reading, educate how to work on a farm, simple education)
- Large families
- Simple weddings (marry another Amish man/women)