Unknown Communities

For our final paper, we have to explore groups/communities that we do not have very much information or knowledge on. I have to admit that at first I was a little brain dead. But then I began to do some brainstorming. I have always wondered about Amish people and the community that they live in. They are depicted in the media and things like that but I really would like to know if those stereotypes are accurate. They are shown as really isolated and removed from the rest of the world. To me it seems like whenever they are portrayed on the television, they all have unique hats on and their hair is really long and uncut. They also have very long unkempt beards. To me it also seems like the media shows the Amish man much more than the Amish female. Amish people are also usually portrayed to be very religious, and interpret the Bible very literally. I wonder if all these things that are shown about Amish people are true. It seems too often like stereotypes that are used in the media are incorrect about groups of people. One of the other ideas that I had about what communities to write about was the “hate” groups like the Ku Klux Klan or the Neo Nazis. The KKK used to be much more widespread than it is today, but even still they persist. They used to be really quite violent in the past and I wonder if they are just as bad today, as they were back then. As far as the Neo Nazis go, all I really know about them is that they are very Anti Semitic. I also understand that they are somewhat against all minorities. These hate groups are not well known about because people fear them, I would like to explore and try to remove some of the fear caused by these organizations.