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Claping (pronounced "clay-ping") refers to hate crimes and harassment directed against Amish people. Non-Amish hooligans may try to force Amish horses and buggies off the road, throw firecrackers at the horses of Amish people, throw stones at Amish people, or otherwise engage in acts of petty vandalism, harassment, and violence.
The Amish is a 2012 documentary film [2] created by PBS [3] [4] as an episode (Season 24, Episode 5) of American Experience. [5] [6] The documentary, as the title implies, is centered on the Amish. [4] It was uploaded on the PBS website in February 2012. Topics in the video range from the Ordnung to the Nickel Mines shooting [4] [7] to Rumspringa.
Amish Grace is a television film that premiered on the Lifetime Movie Network on Palm Sunday, March 28, 2010. The film is based on the 2006 West Nickel Mines School shooting at Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania , and the spirit of forgiveness the Amish community demonstrated in its aftermath.
The idea of “Rumspringa” has a specific spot in the American imagination. A rite of passage for young people in some Amish communities, Rumspringa is seen by most outsiders as a wild time away ...
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A Roberts family spokesman said an Amish neighbor comforted the Roberts family hours after the shooting and extended forgiveness to them. [23] Amish community members visited and comforted Roberts' widow, parents and parents-in-law. One Amish man held Roberts' sobbing father in his arms, reportedly for as long as an hour, to comfort him.
“Amish Stud” isn’t just the eye-catching name of the Lifetime TV movie starring Luke Macfarlane, which premiered on Saturday. It’s also the moniker that the film’s subject, Eli Weaver ...
The Amish's willingness to submit to the "Will of God", expressed through group norms, is at odds with the individualism so central to the wider American culture. The Amish anti-individualist orientation is the motive for rejecting labor-saving technologies that might make one less dependent on the community.