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All chapters in this Second Edition of Increasing Multicultural Understanding have been revised and updated, and there are two new chapters on Muslims and Jews in the United States. The author presents a model which helps counsellors understand culturally different groups and the role culture plays in shaping the way people think, feel and act, and which provides the tools necessary for fostering positive and productive relationships among culturally diverse populations.
Old Order Amish
Old Order Amish
Old Order Amish culture has changed little in 300 years. It varies only in minor ways in districts across the United States despite the absence of telephones and the limits of horse-and-buggy travel. Their agrarian lifestyle is defined by simplicity, hard work, integrity, order, and community. Hostetler (1992) characterized the Amish as “a church, a community, a spiritual union, a conservative branch of Christianity, a religion, a community whose members practice simple and austere living, a familistic entrepreneuring system, and an adaptive human community” (p. 70). Amish life is distinctive in that religion and custom blend into a way of life.
Followers of Mennonite elder Jacob Amman broke from the Mennonite church in Germany in the late 1600s. The first Amish ...
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