All these links are relevant, you can scan through and find necessary information about the Amish culture- how is it different to 'mainstream' American culture? Is it a subculture? Are the Amish all American rejects?
REMEMBER to make a note in your BIBLIOGRAPHY of all the pages you visit- and REMEBER to consider the BIAS of the information. Ask yourself who wrote it? Why? Who would disagree? Is the source RELIABLE?
http://www.welcome-to-lancaster-county.com/amish-culture.html
Lancaster county in Pennsylvania, USA is one of the largest and most traditional of the world's remaining Amish communities
http://www.everyculture.com/multi/A-Br/Amish.html
A really good overview website not just for Amish but for all the other cultures we will study too!!!!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/christianity/subdivisions/amish_1.shtml
This is a BBC site (religion) calls the Amish a separatist group, do you agree?
http://www.amish.net/lifestyle4.asp
A page from the 'Amish' themselves
TV shows and films (valid research sources- as you must source your information from a range of sources)
http://www.tvrage.com/Breaking_Amish_Brave_New_World
How unrealistic a portrayal of the 'true' Amish?
Also try these programmes-
The world's squarest teenagers (channel 4- watch on youtube)
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/amish-worlds-squarest-teenagers/episode-guide
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R87CGp09wCw
Meet the Amish
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6BWcaW77_I
Living with the Amish
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/living-with-the-amish/4od
and the film
Amish Grace (channel5- watch on demand 5)
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