Kabir you need to find videos of the Amish people located in the states of Pennsylvania and Ohio. They are much more conservative. Look for Amish move a building if you want to see something impressive. Also Amish build a barn. They are known to be excellent craftsman and their furniture that they construct is outstanding.

I grew up Mennonite, now I love technology and the internet. I learned how to avoid the bad stuff. I think that makes me stronger. I can brave the storm instead of avoiding it all together.

Not stuck in the 1800s for sure...more like the 1920s or 1930s...they have cars and phones and use many electrical conveniences.

It's funny. In the counties near where I live Lebanon, Lancaster and Berks counties in Pennsylvania, the Amish are far more conservative than the Mennonites. The Mennonites are business owners, they drive cars and trucks....Some paint their bumpers black. The Mennonites also operate Lancaster Mennonite school. It is K through12, like any other primary/high school. They offer AP (Advanced Placement/College) courses and brag a 100% acceptance rate to college. The Amish, on the other hand, offer schooling till 8th grade (13 or 14) years old. Some only 6th grade for girls. They farm and make their livings from their farms. Until recently, none had electricity in their homes. Some sects have decided that solar panels produce electricity from the sun, so that makes it God given. So....With the blessing of the elders, some homes now have solar panels installed.

Probably the happiest people on earth. That's a nice wholesome life.

I had a Mennonite baby sitter when I was younger. She quilted my baby blanket actually, that I still have 40 years later! She was a wonderful, very nice lady. :)

Peter Santenello has a 36 min video on the Amish/Mennonite community in Ohio . I think it will answer many of your questions

This is somewhat misleading. I live in the middle of a largely Mennonite area. In fact, two of my neighbors are Mennonite. They own many of the businesses here. Mostly agricultural based businesses and grocery stores. Notice all the tractors in the barn, they are very pricey. They have a lot of money that they don't donate to the church. The schools are tiny buildings that can't possibly have 8 classrooms but you frequently see the kids outside playing baseball, kickball, or another team sport. They're extremely nice people. I love having Mennonite neighbors.

The main thing I like about Kabir is he does different things. My husband and I went to a Amish community. Where they had a store. On the way out I saw some kids playing ball. They learn different ways to entertain themselves.

It's semi popular to live "off grid" in America. Several tv shows of people in Alaska, Montana and even NC living off the land in the bush . Alaska Bush People, Life below zero, Port Protection, Mountain Men, ect....

There is 175,000 mennonites in Canada and they are spread over 6 provinces. They have been in Canada long before Canada became a nation. They get along with all Canadians very well and provide alot to our economy.

Mennonite communities, like the Amish, vary wildly. Some are super strict, some lean towards modern things. The family in this film lean towards modern stuff. The men are wearing store bought clothes, the house is painted with colors and they have a car. They also have electricity. The Amish use oil lamps and horse and buggies. See if you can find a film on Mennonites in South America. They have their own language that is spoken nowhere else. (It’s not Pennsylvania Dutch.)

I see these people in walmart all of the time so they are not completely isolated

We have Amish and Mennonites here in Oregon up the road from me. We get homemade butter and fresh eggs from the Amish and the Mennonites thin and fell our trees when needed. I live in a rural area far from grocery stores and the hospital but we have the internet, cars etc. We choose to live out here because we like nature more than people and traffic, you don't have to be religious to enjoy a rural life.

My family grew up Mennonite. Some left others stayed. Mine left. My great grandfather stayed with the church. I remember going to church with him. Family was everything every Sunday we all gathered at his home and spent the day with no TV or radio. We kids played outside and had a blast. I miss those days. Pop lived to be 97. He passed in 1972. I was 19. I miss that man and what he stood for.

We have Amish and Mennonites in Mississippi. I love to buy their produce. They bake amazing bread and casseroles to sell in their shops. Their schools teach more through 8th grade than a lot of public schools, so it’s old fashioned eighth grade. They are very smart. Very respectable people.

I live in southern Maryland and we have Amish and mennonite. The Mennonite are less strict than the Amish. They drive cars where the Amish don’t and they use electricity where the Amish don’t. Both the Amish and the Mennonite are in many states so I don’t think there is a problem with inbreeding. The Mennonite do have cell phones so don’t let them fool you. They have businesses and living off the land they are very busy. Both Amish and Mennonite don’t pay taxes. The Amish use draft horses farming there land and as you saw the Mennonite use VERY expensive machinery. They are very wealthy. They are not dumb people. They get away with not paying taxes because they are a “church”.

Mennonites have a broad spectrum. I went to a University with a Mennonite woman. Her group was fairly Liberal.

As long as no one is forced into it, I see nothing wrong with living the way these folks live. They seem healthy and happy, and if they are so, then more power to them. We've become too overcome and obsessed with technology, to the point where few of us know how to do useful, real-world things like farming, canning, and dressing and preparing meat, not to mention making clothing and furniture. Seems fine to me. They're not hurting anybody, so why should I judge them badly?

There are communities of Mennonites where I live in Mid Missouri, they are similar to the ones seen in the video here, but the difference is they are a bit more modern, as they drive vehicles, speak English in public (and amongst themselves Germanic language), and they are QUITE often seen shopping in Walmart!

These people are happy and thriving. There is no good reason to be critical of them.

There is a fantastic documentary here on KZfaq with a more in depth look at them. It’s is fascinating, educational and eye opening.

Amish and Mennonites are very widespread around the US, Canada, and some parts of Latin America. They generally have very good reputations in their communities and a lot of people like to buy what they make, be it food products, furniture, and they have great reputations as builders. They have stores and businesses and they work out how to live in the modern world and still keep their way of life. There's a lot of variation because the Anabaptists aren't centrally organized. So each community works it out in their own way.

This family is obviously quite wealthy. Wisconsin farmland is valued at thousands of dollars per acre, they appear to have a herd of expensive Holstein cows, and the farm equipment on view costs upwards from half a million dollars. Good for them! They may live a simple life, but certainly not a deprived one.

I live in a rural area now and there is an amish community about 10 miles south of me, it really is like people from another world and time.

Mennonites are spread over a very large part of the Midwestern US. The Mennonite Church hss 530 congregations and over 60,000 members.

Some of the simplest things must be a big pain in the ass to them. It's gotten to the point for me, a flip phone user, I can't even use the drive through at the bank because, to make everything "easier" you have to respond to a text message. Not only banking but any interactions with the bureaucracy of life.

If you think the Mennonites are strict in their shunning of the modern world you should see the Amish. Similar but even more extreme in their austerity. I grew up in NJ and we used to take school trips to Lancaster, Pennsylvania to visit the Amish. It was mind blowing even back then in the 80’s to see how they lived so peacefully without modern conveniences. I love watching the videos of the modern Amish. It all looks exactly like I remember 40 years later.

There's a small community of Mennonites here in Eastern Oregon. I see them often in Walmart shopping for various things. There not as large of a community as the one in this video, so I'm not sure if they can been as self sufficient. But they do a lot of charity work in the community, like rebuilding dilapidated barns for farmers, or rebuilding homes that have burnt down, free of charge.

I think it is so very interesting and actually i feel like we townies and city folk could learn from them.

To be incredulous about living without internet or smart 😂 reveals the generation in which you were raised. I don't consider myself to be over the hill or out of touch, but I was raised at a time when home computers, the internet, and even cell phones hadn't been invented yet. We never felt like we were missing anything --that's just the way it was. We all accepted technology as it came along and have probably all looked back and wondered how we got along without cell phones in particular, but we did and it didn't seem painful because that's just the way the world was. 😂

Kabir, it's not the end of the world to not have the Internet or mobile phones. I'm 73 and spent most of my life without them. Life was not boring. We had TV, radio, record players, newspapers, books, sports, dancing, singing and many more pastimes. There is also meeting people, going down the pub (I'm English), walking in the countryside etc. I sometimes have the feeling you KZfaqrs do nothing except sit in front of your computers all the time. The Internet etc can be useful, but sometimes can take up too much time, like it's the middle of the night and I should be asleep. Goodnight.

I think most of us know about the Mennonites! The guy in the video he’s watching at the very beginning said something that insinuated that not many people know about them. I’ve met people from both religions while in upstate New York where they are numerous because of the proximity to Pennsylvania, I guess, and they are always the nicest people. In that community you could tell which houses belonged to an Amish family because all of the front doors were painted blue. It was kinda cool. I know that the Mennonites use phones but for most Amish they’re strictly forbidden except in an absolute emergency. I was driving by an Amish’s crop fields and there was a little shed right where I was driving by and I watched 4 Amish kids hiding behind the shed talking on a phone. They looked like teenagers. All boys. My ex husband grew up in that town and he told me that the Amish kids went to his high school and they would use and play around with technology.A lot of Amish communities I’ve been around had a restaurant that they owned as one of their ways to make money and if you haven’t gone to one I highly suggest that you do and make sure you get a dessert! There’s one such place in north Georgia just south of Augusta and they have a restaurant but also in the building they have a gift shop with a ton of desserts. My family made the trip from Virginia to South Georgia very frequently and we had to go through Augusta and right by the restaurant/store so we always made a point of stopping to grab some desserts. They’re amazing and I don’t even care that they probably used Crisco to make them. That’s extremely high praise coming from me!

I live near a Mennonite community in Florida. While they do keep to their ways, they are not completely isolated and do interact with the community at large. They run an amazing farmer's market, and many of the young men work construction in the area. They have electricity, phones, cars, and they attend local schools (at least the ones near me do, it varies with the particular group) They are always there to lend a hand in times of disasters such as hurricanes.

I bet they're some of the happiest people in the country. I'm currently in the process of simplifying my life. Getting away from modern society, teaching myself how to raise chickens and can preserves. Modern society has gone off the deep end. Crime is on the rise, inflation is out of control, our rights are being taken from us. You're not even allowed to post a comment on the internet anymore unless it aligns with woke ideology.

Here in the u.s. we only went to school until 13 they knew puberty was the transformationn from a child to adult then for a political reason they changed it

You do not need to be connected to the internet to use a flip phone.

Being without the internet is not a bad thing in my opinion. Sure the internet has its good points, but it also has a ton of bad points as well.

I've met a Mennonite family and they were very friendly and welcoming. Good people.

The original video maker was so respectful and non-judgemental of the people and their way of life. There is certainly a lot to be respected about the way they live. My issues would be: The lack of choice in how they live their lives- it's either all-in, or all out. There is no opportunity for anyone to take on careers or roles in the community that aren't within very strict boundaries. Also that there are things for which they are reliant on the outside world- they don't manufacture those cars and tractors themselves, and they need to trade with outsiders for many of the thing they have, whilst at the same time no-one from their community is able to be involved in those industries or trades themselves.

I’ve met a few Mennonites, nice people.

They are big in Arizona as well

I work in retail in a small town in Alabama. One of our customers is a Mennonite woman. She is super friendly and loves to laugh. She comes in every few weeks to get whatever supplies she needs.

Kabir, just 35 miles southeast of Dallas, TX there is a Mennonite community. I worked for a home builder and my boss hired several of the Mennonite men for carpenter work, electrical work, etc. They had a bakery that sold their bakery products. The ladies would bring us a big platter of cookies as a gift at Christmas. They drove automobiles and trucks. The way they are dressed is so familiar to me. They didn’t watch tv or listen to the radio. There are many Mennonite communities across the USA.

I wonder if Covid happened to them at all? Does anyone know?

I knew quite a few when I lived in Pennsylvania.

I was JUST watching a video last night about a few companies who make laptops for the Amish/Mennonite community (They will use it for running their business), The interesting thing is they pay a PREMIUM $$$ for computers which are ADVERTISED AS "No, games, No internet, no Music, No pictures". It doesn't connect to the internet and is Linux Based Rather than windows. It's so interesting that folks will pay EXTRA for a computer that has been hobbled. I still respect them for it though I don't know if I could live like that.

I live in central Pennsylvania, and there are a lot of Amish and Mennonites around here. To me, the Mennonites are a sort of modern version of the much more archaic and old-fashioned Amish. I do see Mennonites, but the Amish are much more prevalent in my area. The Amish don't drive...it's horse and buggy for transportation, and horse-drawn farming, etc. Like the Mennonites, the Amish are very friendly people. You brought up an interesting point about genetic diversity and inbreeding...those are problems in the Amish community.

While I love church hymns, I'm saddened they don't hear any music other than those. But what they don't know might not hurt them. I can understand considering other types of music "sinful." Just look at the lyrics. This is extreme, though. And totally their right to live like that. Doesn't affect me at all. As a theologian, it's fun to learn about.

"To each their own."

These are New Order Mennonites. The Old Order are more like the Amish. They do not have electricity or gas vehicles. The Walmart in Athens Tennessee has a metal covered parking spots for the local Mennonites can park their horse buggy's in shade while they shop. They do have colleges. Genosha is the one a friend attended.

I think it just depends on each community on how strict they are. When I was looking at colleges, I went to look at a college that was a Mennonite school. They dressed conservatively, but not in a way that made them stand out, and the students were required to go to church. I am not Mennonite but I was welcomed. On that same note, where I live, we have Mennonites and Amish not too far from us and they dress alike and it is hard to tell the difference. Also, I love to watch a lot of cooking videos on KZfaq and there are Mennonites who have KZfaq channels.

They aren’t totally cut off. They are also very skilled craftsmen in many areas!!! And many times they sell the stuff they make or contract their skills for things like construction. It just really depends on the group. There are some groups that are more strict and don’t use any modern technology while others are lax on some technology.

I’d say they’re probably ahead of the game, with how society is right now. I often think of my husband and I taking the kids and dog off the grid. 😅

Like things passed down from grandparents I look at the Amish and Mennonites as a preservation of culture that maybe be of importance someday. A huge sun flare could come along and end satellite communication or WWIII could devastate civilization as we know it. These people have all the basics to rebuild their community. Many people outside of religion still choose to live off the 'grid' in remote areas and live off the land preserving our ancestors way of living. All these people can survive in the meagerest of environments and perhaps just maybe reteach others how to do so also.

There have been plenty of them that left the fold.

There are Menonites near me in Alabama. They shop in Walmart. They have electricity and cars. We call them Amish lite. I have actually seen a Menonites woman’s channel on you tube. So I don’t know how much they avoid the internet😮😮

Menonites are like Amish but are allowed to have electricity and drive cars

Meanwhile in Lacrosse, WI.....

I visited a college attended November 2023 and saw they renamed the building ... it's a Mennonite nursing program at Illinois State University, in Normal, Illinois.

My dad lived in Shelbyville, Indiana and dealt with a lot of Amish and Mennonite people. The local Walmart even had parking spaces just for their horse and buggies out on the side of the store. They seemed to be just normal people that choose to live differently than most of us. He always said they make a lot of money since they don't pay taxes and that they were tightwads. LOL I guess frugal would be a more appropriate term. I never had any bad interactions with them, other than being stuck behind one of their buggies and unable to get around them.

Becoming a dr wouldn’t just disrupt their support, but getting a higher education today would require them to adequately learn how to use the internet. There isn’t a single class that doesn’t require email or to use YT for educational purposes. The level of conviction a person would have to have to basically isolate themselves outside of doing class work to try to stay sort of true to their culture, would be intense.

Wow they are so friendly. The Amish are stricter. I don't know if they would have invited them in with their cameras. I have seen some Mennonite women at the store buying fabric before but I think for the most part they're self sustainable.

This is a particular sect of Mennonites because there’s a Mennonite college near me. Eastern Mennonite University. They do dress like that though.

The Amish are far more strict. They do not even allow electricity. I live in WV and in my travels have visited nearby Amish communities & them as well.

I was married by my Mennonite brother-in-law (from PA). He lives in NYC now. Definitely uses electricity

I graduated high school in 1970 in rural Ohio. My high school was basically run by Mennonites. I think my dad chose that area - tho he wasn't very religious - to raise his family because he was so opposed to alcohol. Wouldn't have anything to do with you if you drank. Mom was the same way. Other than a pre-school bible session for the Mennonites, it was just a regular high school. Of course, our dress code was a bit strict but the lunches were fabulous. :) We grew our own vegies - raised chickens - and each year butchered a cow and a hog for the freezer and canned for the winter. Oh, and when I was around 6 - we finally got indoor plumbing. lol

There is a Mennonite church about 10 miles from my house in North Carolina. I don't know where the members live as I never see anyone who dresses differently. They are probably a liberal branch. I have an ancestral line who were Swiss Brethren, heavily persecuted and immigrated to the USA for that reason.

They don't need much, they grow all their own food and many have jobs. They have lights and electricity.

It looks like the have plumbing and electricity at least. I don't think the Amish even allow that.

They arent "stuck" its their lifestyle. This is a condescending video title.

i love me some deer meat! especially deer jerky and you know homeboy has turned the radio on in his car before lol

There are Mennonite communities all over the country. The family I know in Lincoln county Oklahoma only wears.darker colored clothing, similar to the Amish. They won't wear pastels or red, yellow and orange.

I really thought that this was going to be a video about the FLDS lol 😂 I think that there should be a video that talks about the Anabaptist the hutterites the Mennonites the Amish the flds and many more segregated religious groups like that because there’s a lot of them in America and I bet there’s more groups than I just named that I haven’t even heard of he should do a video on all of the groups that are like that in America now that would be cool

The Mennonites here in GA are business owners, use the internet, and drive trucks and cars. They dress very plainly and conservatively and are very religious, but they interact with the local community quite closely. And you want to talk about fabulous cooks??? These ladies can cook!!!! We have a Mennonite bakery in town that serves the most delicous pastries you could ask, and their casseroles are jam up. They are lovely people and very kind and charitable.

The Amish and Mennonites are both from the Anabaptist strain of Christianity. Both Sects - the Amish and Mennonites and their communities are growing; there are no poor Amish or Mennonites; It is a simple way of life and they are self-sufficient almost all are business owners. And the Amish were taken to court by the government years ago for not sending their children to the public school until they are 18, and the Supreme court ruled in favor of the Amish their children speak English and a German Dialect, when they finish 8th grade are far better educated than 12th grade graduates from public schools - they test at 12 grade levels, and can all do bookkeeping and tax preparation; and they have all the skills you need to live a successful life. Some Mennonites do drive, there are a variety of them - and they don't buy hospital insurance - they have a program where they all donate into a fund to pay for one another's medical care. I grew up next to Mennonites - everyone thinks they and the Amish are backwards, but they are living way better lives than 90% of the population; honestly living amongst them - you will find they are far happier than most folks. Money can't buy what they build. Also, they work together as a community just like the Amish and the Hutterites, and as I say their communities are growing - not just through having large families but because a lot of Christians are draw to that life.

The Mennonite in many places actually allow driving...the Amish are much more strict.

You have to remember not a lot of these people are on any kind of medication because they eat right.They eat natural and they only eat the things that they grow.Also, you think this as old time?You ought to see the Amish to.I'm like this, but without machinery.And without any phones

FYI, the colors should give you a hint that the Mennonites are less strict. The Amish only wear black and white.

I could be mistaken, I believe in the Amish community, due to a shortage of outsiders marrying into their faith, they are having difficulties with a dramatic rise in birth defects and such, basically being too closely related. I will say that these communities are very friendly while still upholding their faith and values, they don't pay taxes or SSI and they don't get benefits either. They have assimilated. Other religions.....well they could learn from them.

I live in north central Wisconsin and its just normal to us to see Mennonites and Amish

The biggest difference between Amish and Mennonite is that the Mennonite can use electricity, phones, cars, and tractors.

As a Christian, I kinda was always envious of their life. Being in a modern world with tech makes it REALLY hard to focus as a Christian. Granted I wouldn't want to live so old fashioned. But I could definitely be ok with no internet if it came to it. And who knows, if a solar flare is ever bad enough, it will fry out tech on earth and we will be forced to live like they do.

I don't like the term "stuck", but some are stuck. I've known many Amish and Mennonites over the years who wanted to leave the order, but to do so, you have to give up your family. You leave, you are shunned. No contact with family or friends who stay in the order forever. That's a big reason many stay.

These guys are living in the future compared to the Amish!

Nowhere does it say a kiss on the lips

They have quite a bit of modernization. Their dress is old fashioned. But that's about it.

I go out of my way to find Amish or Mennonite made products. I trust them more then I trust factory workers. They're just like anyone else - there's good and bad in the community - they just have a different belief structure. I've done volunteer work when I was a kid at a state park that was run as an 1830s village. They just haven't adopted as much to the modern life. If there's ever an EMP or solar flare that takes down the grid they're in the best position to thrive.

Kabir- lived in Central Pennsylvania for years and the Mennnonites are sort of Amish Light. Depends on each congregation, but most I encountered had electricity , land line phones and drove cars. Whenever the Amish needed a lift to the hospital or whatever, usually a Mennonite neighbor would drive them. The women wore sort of a netted caps and we had several working in the hospital as xray techs etc. Maybe these were more liberal than the group he is filming. Amish have a lot of birth defects and premature births. The Mennonites not so much, they have a more diverse gene pool. One day at the beach, I saw a Mennonite young woman in a two piece bathing suit with her little net cap!

May I ask a personal question of this video presenter? (Kibo). I watched an actor on a comedy called 'Motherland' and an actor's voice was exactly the same as this presenters. Not the presenters commentating on the American video.

We had a large Mennonite community in my hometown. They were always peaceful, caring, and hard working. A lot of times we would see them only in the grocery store or the library, and they only checked out books on farming, hunting, agricultural studies and religious books. It was a commune of about 20 families, making up about 500 people living, working, and praying all together. I never really got to know them, because they are very private and don't brag or boast, but they also don't push their faith on anyone but their own, and the kids can decide to stay in the faith or not, usually in their late teens. They don't baptize the babies, but instead when a Mennonite teen choses to be baptized, because they believe a person should come to God of their own free will. There is a lot I don't know about Mennonites, but I can honestly say they are people who are worthy of respect, even if I am not Christian.

I wonder if they know who the Packers are... :)))

I live in Wisconsin. We have plenty of Amish, Quakers, and Mennonites. All three are fantastic people and hard working. While theyre definitely falling into somewhat of being a cult, they have to choice to leave with the result being shunned. Some enclaves of the same group can have different rules even a few miles away. Mennonites are basically normal people who dress funny and ignore modern technology that isnt critical like vehicles or a phone. As others have pointed out, Amish take this firner, and nearly ude zero modern conveniences. Some will have and elder who owns a phone or thr whole community will have a vehicle. They avoid some taxes too, like social security or medicare. Ive seen Mennonites who work in fast food restaurants, so like I mentioned different rules for different groups.

They're living in the 1800s? I see modern tech all over the place!

Mennonite do have a family car. No horse and buggy for them. They quite often live near horse and buggy guys.

Mennonites are basically Amish but less strict.

But they sing together.

Lol autocorrect pornography, lol

The Amish are more strict than the Mennonites, but they are similar. When some Amish leave they join the Mennonites. There are different types of Amish as well, some use technology. Looking into something for a few of the out of country channels to react to, that I think you all will enjoy. I am going to ask for permission from the channel first.

The low level of education is concerning. Even more concerning would be if anyone even saw a picture of boobs they would be forever exiled from their family, friends, religion, job and life as they knew it, which is quite extreme. I would say they are stuck in it because with a low education level, thus nonexistent opportunities outside of the community and the cost of losing all family and friends, they don't have much choice but to stay.