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Amish Counterculture Examples

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During this current millennial age of technology and expression, counterculture is inevitable among the public. An example of this are the Amish people because they decided to live by the land, away from modern society. The Amish are a very religious, cultural group of people that are very recognizable in the media today, and utterly portray counterculture. To begin, there are a variety occurrences the Amish have been noticed in the media today. For example, a Hallmark channel movie, The Shunning, portrays Katie, a girl given to an Amish family, just realizes that she was not their true daughter. By going against the Amish rules and regulations, Katie is then shunned from the rest of her civilization. By her mother breaking the shunning rules,
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