Pennsylvania Dutch Documentary

Short documentary about the Pennsylvania Dutch (Germans).
I do not own the rights to this film

[MeLancer]

Thanks for your post. According to family tradition, ancestors on my mother's side immigrated to Lancaster County, PA from Germany. I'm told they were called Pennsylvania Dutch. I am proud of the humble legacy they left behind.

[blondek]

I am Pennsylvania Dutch, left to chase my husband’s career. But when it came to settle to buy a house, moved back to buy a farm. We are Lutheran. Humility has always been part of our life. My husband got a good job in a large city. He has two sets of clothes, that for work and that for home. His co-workers are shocked on how we live, the ones he has told. Most he has not. Our life is simple. Our home is not fancy, nor do we spend money on frivolous things. When it comes to religion.silence is best. We pray everyday and God is the center of our lives, most secular people (that’s what we call them) do not relate to us. It’s wonderful when folks visit our farm, they always come back...but don’t ask me to visit them back, I’ve tried being in a city and it’s just not for me.

[KellehNikole]

I'm Pennsylvania Dutch because of my grandma Schuck on my mom's side. My mom's mom. I never knew too much about it. I'm glad there's videos about Pennsylvania Dutch I don't think they're learned about enough.

[imra]

My Great Grandpa was Pennsylvania Dutch and handed down the simplicity of living to my Grandma and she down to me! He had left the community I think when he met my Great Grandma! When you live simply out here people make fun of you they think you’re poor but really you are not! They just don’t understand!

[MsWatever]

My great grandma was an Amish Pennsylvania Dutch, she ran away from that life though after her parents died and she was raised by her abusive uncle. She did teach my grandma some of that culture, and foods like scrapple that she passed on to me. Very cool to see this.

[rh]

I love all people who just want to be left alone, and don't want anything from me.

[idesofmarchUNIAEA]

The simple life. No zanex, no tranquilizers. Kids don’t kill other kids for their sneakers.

Good people.

Guti Leute.

[TheAkbar]

Very interesting! What is the name of the sect at 3:09?

[Waypx]

At 14:27, that looks like the ORIGINAL Harrisburg Fire Show. Before going to The Farm Show Complex, it was held at Dutch Wonderland.

[TheAkbar]

Somebody know, when this documentory was made?

[dorcylance]

The guy they interview is not Amish or Mennonite. He is Old German Baptist, part the Schwarzenau Brethren. They dress a little like the Amish, but most of them drive cars except for the very conservative Old Order German Baptists.

[robert_ralston]

Just finding about my Pennsylvania Dutch history and my German history today

[paulieheydrich]

Unrelated but It was a German Quaker the founder of German town phila.that wrote the first petition against slavery. Vincent Pistorius unfortunately I only there there is a school named after him. Just one of the many (more than anyone else) things the Germans did first

[mikebrandenburg]

This confused me so much, it is about PA Dutch, everything is about German... Dutch is not German. DUTCH is how Diets was translated to English, Diets meaning Netherlands (Nederlands)..

[hoppas]

This did not have much info about PA Dutch...

[jakeknapp]

Is this from the 60s or 70d documentary

[donnaknudson]

Please excuse any ignorance I might have. I am not PA Dutch, but have lived around the "fancy" PA Dutch all my life. I have a question. Why do the "plain" Dutch, and the Fancy Dutch (I have noticed) not like people learning music for example? At the end of the documentary there are obviously accomplished musicians playing German music. Without spending a significant amount of time in their life learning their instrument, they would not be able to play as well as the documentary shows. It seems to contradict the fact that they (seem to) not believe in learning anything beyond what would be practical as agrarians.Why not learn the German music that exalts God? Bach, for example, wrote volumes and volumes of religious music. Again I'm very ignorant about this whole culture so please excuse me if I'm incorrect about anything. I understand Bach existed after the PA Dutch came here. So....? But why the resistance towards any of the arts, when a lot of art can exalt God? I myself am a musician and have spent a lot of my time working on classical music in my life and one thing I noticed when I was growing up was that even among the the "fancy" Pennsylvania Dutch they seem to have almost a disdain for anything intellectual or creative. I never understood that. I never understood why, even though they (the "fancy" ones) are not part of a closed culture they still seem to have that way of thinking. As a child growing up around fancy Pennsylvania Dutch people I noticed a distinct dislike toward me because I was involved in these things and I never understood why. Right now I'm I'm dating a Pennsylvania Dutch man and while I noticed he does have appreciation for music ( I know I am over generalizing actually), he doesn't seem to like any new ideas or to think about anything that's not practical. I've noticed these people in general, some of them having been my friends and neighbors, are very very practical, very efficient, very neat, very physical. But they do not like to go into any nonphysical realm or way of thinking. Throughout my life I have sometimes had a lot of negativity from some of these people because of the way I am. I never acted haughty or like I was better than anyone else. I've always been very shy and and humble actually. So I don't understand why some of them dislike me or dislike that part of myself. I am wondering if someone can explain that to me when it comes to the the fancy Pennsylvania Dutch in particular. Perhaps someone can explain this from maybe a historical perspective?

[PennySTX]

Sadly he is right my grandparents never taught my mom uncle and aunt pa dutch so it is being lost. Although they can understand it my generation can't.

[thomasmoch]

I bet nobody is saying “speak English! You’re in America”

[Srinidhi]

Thank you so much. I thought the Pennsylvania Dutch are actually, people from Netherlands.