LANCASTER, Pa. (Aug. 20) – The Amish are expanding their presence in states far beyond Pennsylvania Dutch country as they search for affordable farmland to accommodate a population that has nearly doubled in the past 16 years, a new study found.States such as Missouri, Kentucky and Minnesota have seen increases in their Amish populations of more than 130 percent. The Amish now number an estimated 227,000 nationwide, up from 123,000 in 1992, according to researchers from Elizabethtown College’s Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies.Over the same period, Amish settlements have been established in seven new states, putting them in at least 28 states from coast to coast. The new states are: Arkansas, Colorado, Maine, Mississippi, Nebraska, Washington and West Virginia.
Well, at 230K, it’s not really an “ambush”, and Amish don’t really do anything bad on a sect-wide level (unless you count how they treat each other, and their annoying habit of driving their buggies in the street). And they do make nice quilts.But guess what they don’t do — READ THIS BLOG. BAD AMISH!
Pay it forward.
Tell it to the Chinese, the Indians, the Mexicans and any other group with high birth rates. I can’t halt the population explosion and I’m not putting any money on you. Over population is the real problem.
GF&G
Tell them what?
Huh? What does that even mean?
I agree so we should be calling our senators and pushing for population control legislation. The Chinese already have a one child policy. We have lots of influence in India and Mexico. International aid and business interests could eaily be tied to population reduction measures.
GF&G
I noticed that he didn’t answer my question: How will you thank them?
he didn’t -> you didn’t
What
I like that!
cry4turtles
I’m glad to hear they’re trying. There is so much bigotry in this country against other languages, they must be fighting an uphill battle.
English is rapidly becoming the world’s universal language. Schoolchildren in nearly all countries are being taught it routinely, sometimes starting as early as their own language. If this goes on, other languages will go extinct one by one, and finally English will be the only language anyone can speak. The loss of a language is the same kind of loss to the store of human knowledge as the extinction of a species.
The only way this trend could be resisted is for children to be taught in their own language as long as possible, and leave English to be taught as a foreign language in the later school years.
NotSoFast
I think that’s a very good analogy.
I?m an only child and my son is an only child, but I hope he has 2 kids because we need more Atheists.
I like Amish noodles and milk. My stomach reacted badly after eating at an Amish restaurant in Ohio. I think it might have been the water used in the iced tea.
I think we should not overestimate the use of English as a universal lingua franca, especially with the growth of Chinese.
Interestingly nine British MP’s have nominated Esperanto for the Nobel Peace Prize 2008.
You can see detail at http://www.lernu.net
I think we should not overestimate the use of English as a universal lingua franca, especially with the growth of Chinese.
Interestingly nine British MP’s have nominated Esperanto for the Nobel Peace Prize 2008.
You can see detail at http://www.lernu.net