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Darn, forgot about it! I'll catch it sometime. I've been watching "Amish:Out of Order" also.
A busload of Hutterites came into the Burger King I was woking back in the 80's and that was the first time I had ever heard the word "Hutterite", I had called them Amish. The women I spoke with were pretty old and not a wrinkle on the face. I know neither Amish nor Hutterite women have an easy life but they all show what makeup does to a woman's face.
I'm taping it for a friend who grew up in Montana and has friends in one of the colonies. I saw just a couple minutes of the end of the first episode. A mother and daughter arguing and "the elders" on their way to talk about the girl.
Is this a true representation of the Hutterite life, or is it like most of the shows these days, showing all the bad about people, even if they have to make it up?
I grew up near Amish country in Ohio and my husband grew up near a lot of Hutterites in South Dakota and I got to meet a lot of them when I lived in South Dakota for 6years. Very different from what we know of course, but I can respect their hard work
I've been watching both and I'm really impressed with Mose Gingerich and his attempts to transition the young people leaving the Amish. His own search for peace and spirituality seems so sincere, and his revelation about his mistreatment at the hands of his father may have helped him to find that peace.
As for the Hutterites, I'm not so sure there is a lot of sincerity in this series. There is a lot of drama that I don't believe the elders would allow to be shown. Bertha seems to be enjoying her role of being shunned. It seems strange that agreeing to be on TV and then going against the rules of the Colony by sending her boys to high school - surely she knew they'd be found out? Something that was said following the cattle sale, that they weighed less than anticipated and so were worth less than they planned and they didn't know how they would make up for the shortfall - maybe that's why the NatGeo show drew them in, with the promise of payment.
The boys want to play football at school, the daughter wants to date a runaway from another Hutterite colony - holy cow, how do they ever keep people living there? I'm reserving judgement on this one.
My first time meeting Hutterites was way back in the late 1970s when I worked in a motel in Seattle - a Hutterite family brought a child to be treated in Children's Hospital there. There were two women and one man, so I just assumed at the time that they practiced polygamy - but I guess they don't.
The thing about this series that has shocked me most is how they all swear so much, male and female!!! And so much beer drinking - guess they're German, all right!
And yes, they DO seem very aware that they are being filmed. Maybe the producers picked the most liberal possible colony and they agreed upon the action with them before hand - bad behavior has consequences, and so on.
One of the women listed the three levels of Hutterism(?) and theirs is not the strictest. Their spirituality seems secondary to their determination to live off the land and be self-sufficient and apart from the "world". I guess the elders have to have a heavy hand and use intimidation and threat of shunning to keep the rest of them in line. They don't seem as nearly as strict as the Amish, or as religious, but they still retain the hair and dress that sets them apart from today's society. Strange, but not for me to judge. They'd probably think I was pretty different, too.
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