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I initially though of them as "Like the Amish, but without the shunning" but that's a bit off. This will likely have little interest, but still maybe I'll be wrong on that.
They are amazing... & make me wonder how I'd do living so simply & by physically working for everything. Environmentally, they seem to be in much more harmony, than many other in more "industrial" areas. Yet, I wonder with being so busy physically, if they're able to get as much well-rounded education.
Hmm one thing on the objecting Hutterites indicates something like waterboarding isn't precisely new in the US.
"Yet that was not enough; next, they took me into my room, filled the bathtub with cold water, told me to remove my clothes (which I did), and forced me under the water. I tried to hold my breath, but could not;" Andrew Wurtz
Although kind of worse as these weren't terrorists, but Americans who refused any military service at the camp. In a way their refusal, even to help injured soldiers, seems maybe a bit extreme and too stubborn. I mean if you're of the type that values the state more than I do. Still, wow! Depressing reading the government did this less than a century ago. I wonder if this story, Hutterites sent to Alcatraz for refusing any military service, has ever been a movie.
The story of the Rockport Hutterites has been bantered about in our family for several generations. My great-uncle was drafted in WWI and shipped out on the same train as the Hutterite conscripts. He clearly understood and respected - as I gather did many local folks - Hutterite pacifism and refusal to wear a uniform. One wonders what the local draft board was thinking.
As regards the question on well rounded education set forth above, my wife taught at a couple colony schools as a contract instructor provided by the local school district. Then - over 20 years ago - the kids had a fairly standard curriculum through 8 grades along with German school every afternoon.
A new reality series on them is raising controversy. It shows them drinking, cursing, and criticizing the elders as well as church rules. Although some of its debates on higher-education and Hutterites did interest me.
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