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The Amish live simply, but don't confuse them with environmentalists

  • Written by David McConnell, Professor of Anthropology, The College of Wooster
An Amish girl chases a cow from the outfield during a baseball game in Bergholz, Ohio, April 9, 2013. AP Photo/Scott R. Galvin

In recent decades, many popular myths about the Amish – that they are dying out, or are a homogeneous community of technophobes, or are “stuck in the past” – have been convincingly dispelled. Yet the...

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