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Amish Identity Essay

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Identity refers to what or who a person is, but true identity can frequently be suppressed due to being unaccepted in society. However, identity can also be misconstrued due to stereotypes and social construction. By taking a glance at a picture of a swastika and Amish young adults in the middle of Times Square, the pictures directly relate to identity and describe a group of people with relations to their struggles.
The images of a swastika and young Amish adults in New York City are polar opposite, but both images reflect a well-known and worldwide image for both people groups. The image of a swastika identifies with Nazis and Jews; according to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum website, the swastika symbol was not first used by Adolf Hitler. The swastika originated over five thousand years before Hitler used the symbol, and right before …show more content…

In a Huffington Post article, one of the stars of the TLC show, ‘Breaking Amish’, Kate is interviewed about her past Amish life and her present life living in New York City as a model, designer, and college student. Kate grew up in small farm located in a religious sect of the Amish country in Pennsylvania; though her family had raised her to reject the modern day world, she decided to take a chance and break away from the Amish life and move to New York City. Though Kate is privileged to be doing so well living in the modern day world, she came from an oppressed background. Being born into an Amish family, she failed to be asked to be raised as Amish. Now out in the world, Kate has struggled with huge cultural change that came with leaving the Amish. Though she came from an oppressed background which shuns the modern world and ways, she now is thriving in New York and chasing her dreams wholeheartedly (1,000 Dreams

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