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An 11 page discussion of the social, economic, and cultural histories of these peoples in the U.S. To prosper in America one must Americanize to one extent or another. The Amish and the most devout of Orthodox Jews have chosen to resist this Americanization. Others, however, have not. This has led to profound impacts in these peoples’ personal and professional lives.
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to many diverse cultural groups. Many times those groups remain isolated to a large extent from mainstream culture. That isolation can be attributed to a number of factors.
Extreme differences in ideology can be one of those factors. Such has been the case with numerous religious groups throughout the history of our country. Among the
most interesting of those groups are the Orthodox Jews and the Amish. Each has an extensive social, political and economic history in this country yet each remains even today
largely separated from the rest of Americans. That separation has had many impacts on the personal, interpersonal, social and professional lives of these people.
The history of the Orthodox Jew in the U.S. is relatively obscure in many peoples minds. In the United States there are three branches of Judaism with
the most liberal branch being the Reform Jews (Thompson, 2000). The Reform Jews number about one and a half million people (Thompson, 2000). The Reform Jews are contrasted
to the Orthodox views in regard to many of their opinions regarding women as well as other issues. The Orthodox Jew is similar in many ways to the Amish.
This is particularly true in regard to the role their women have played in their culture. It can be contended that both traditional Judaism and the Amish religion
formed a binary opposition between nature and culture. It revolved to a large degree around the economic value of the wife in a patriarchal society with the contention
the woman was not a subject but an object to be bartered in the interest of promoting the all-important male status.
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