I am a Hungarian and we do the same. That one surprised me... We have half-brown bread too. And the very poor people in the past had "black bread", I have read it in old poems. It probably was brown (I tried to make a black bread using normal ingredients, it's not easy) and surely was called "black" for contrast... We don't call modern breads black ever (maybe if someone makes it with coal or quid ink so it's truly black). Wheat bread only says it's from wheat, it doesn't tell me if it's white or brown is brown sounds logical to me if I want to refer to the brown one... I guess wholemeal can be used too though, we have that as well but if I want to refer to a really brown option, of course I say brown as it makes it pretty clear. I would do that in English too, it is a bread with brown color so it's brown bread even if it's not used like that normally :)
There are a few restaurants in the US that serve bread that is a very dark brown color (most famously is The Cheesecake Factory - their brown bread is sold in stores as well) and we also have rye and pumpernickel breads that are sometimes dark brown. So even though wheat IS brown in comparison to white, it's so many shades lighter than what we consider "brown bread", that's where the confusion comes in.
@@claddagh143 you get other brown breads everywhere else too but you'd likely be more specific if you were refering to those so everyone knows what you mean by default brown bread.
If it makes you feel better, I grew up in mainstream society but somehow miss 80% of pop culture. I also would have no idea about the Top Gun/Danger Zone thing. Learned about it from your video!
Same here! Also when you get older you don't keep up with some aspects of popular culture and other things because you can't keep up with everything and frankly, you don't care.
As a German living in Greece this is so relatable. When you change culture there's just so many things you don't know. It's also weird that my children are more competent in the culture that surrounds us than I am, because they're growing up in it. Whenever people find it weird that I don't know things, I usually will ask them if they know "Sendung mit der Maus" and start saying something in German. They quickly realise I'm not more ignorant than them, it's just that I chose to explore and learn, while they stay within what they know.
@@ankavoskuilen1725 that's great!!! Such a good show! I'm from Bavaria, we could also see Austrian TV. It's nice how in Europe borders aren't so clear when it comes to TV and radio signals 😊
The bread thing, calling brown bread wheat bread is an American thing. Some cultures call it brown bread. Calling brown bread wheat bread always strikes me as funny. I know it's a shortening of whole wheat bread, but generally, all the bread is made from wheat flour so it's all wheat bread. If white bread is white, it just makes sense to call it brown bread.
@@rachelcookie321 Yep! Weird, huh? It's made with molasses. Brown bread, beans and hot dogs (traditionally "franks", vienna sausage). It's really just a New England thing and even here it's not very common any more. Part of why it usually comes in a can is because people actually made it that way, pour the batter into a tin can and steam it. It's kinda like sweet cornbread where it's somewhere between bread and cake.
Exactly, I'm in the UK and as a kid we just talked about white or brown bread...mind you, in some parts of London brown bread is rhyming slang for dead.
The lady at Subway was just being mean. She knew what you meant and she didn’t have to make you feel silly. If she had any question, all she had to do was ask if you meant wheat bread. People need to be kind not critical.
in our household, "brown" bread means pumpernickel bread. If someone asked me for "brown" bread I wouldn't know what they're talking about unless they started pointing
I thought "brown bread" in English was exactly what she was talking about so I was so confused lol. I'm not a native English speaker and brown bread is usually rye or pumpernickel style bread here, it's almost black because it's so dark. But in the UK, I've ordered brown bread and gotten the slightly darker wheat bread. Might just be a British remnant in the Amish community if it's not the same in American English.
In the Netherlands we call plain wheat bread brown bread. If it's whole wheat, it will say that. We have a lot of different types of bread, but brown bread is the bread one step above white bread.
Wow, I hear you loud & clear. My father was in the US Foreign Service and we lived in a South American country 1965 to 1970 -- I had my 7th birthday a few months after we got there and turned 13 just a few months after returning "home" to the US. I didn't know the sports teams, didn't know the current slang, didn't get any of the pop culture references, didn't know the TV shows or films, etc. etc. My folks did what they could to help, and (after a few missteps) I had a good group of friends who understood, but it still took a couple of years for me to feel truly comfortable again. You might want to look up the term "Third-Culture Kid" and maybe "Global Nomad", there's a surprisingly large number of people who have similar backgrounds involving a huge culture swap. (Usually it's in the diplomatic, corporate, and religious communities, but you growing up in Amish culture, then having to adapt to mainstream culture and building your own internal "culture" to reconcile the two and adapt fits the 3rd culture kid profile very well.
By the 70s the Amreican families living in the Panama Canal Zone were given flights to the US every 2 summers. It was supposed to keep us in touch with the "States" which it did fairly well. Though our films and fashion were always behind the times... with a new boom every fall when kids got back from the states. My parents were teachers, civilian and military bases, on the Atlantic Side of the Canal Zone from 1966-1979. We only had 2 channels of TV provided by Armed Forces Broadcasting that ran from 3pm to midnight. I always hated having to head back to Panama right when all the new shows were advertised!!!
I had no idea those terms existed! Whenever someone asks me where I'm from I have to clarify if they're asking where was I born, where was I raised, or what is my ethnicity, because each of those is a different answer lol
Yes, I think reading and understanding the term "TCK" third culture kid would fit these Amish young people. As an American living in Poland, we always had to catch up on so much when we went back to the states. Even ordering at McD's took a long time as we wanted to just absorb what was available and the best deals, etc.
My family has always used brown bread to describe whole wheat bread and white bread for the kind made with refined white flour. It’s a extremely common way to ask for whole wheat bread in many families across USA and CANADA.
Yeah, goes to show that if you're made to feel stupid and uninformed by the general public, you give a lot of passes to the idiots of the world. It's all relative.
I wonder if it's a regional thing because my friends and family (from Southern USA and California) and even extended family NEVER refer to whole wheat bread as brown bread. Only white bread is referred to by its color and everything else is called by its actual type (i.e. rye, potato, multigrain, etc.). Oddly enough, even though I've done a decent amount of traveling in Europe and the bottom half of USA, this is the first time that I found out that so many people call whole wheat bread, brown bread. The closest I've heard was my German teacher saying that she missed "black bread," which confused everyone in class, and she had to explain that it is kinda like pumpernickel bread.
This reminds me, back in the 90s, I had a client that had been in a coma and had to learn about everything since then. He went to the library and read all the old magazines and newspapers, and then he asked the classic rock station if he could listen to to the last 20 years of music. I think he did that with the country and Christian station too, but he ended up with a job at the classic rock station. And then he got a degree in whatever it is studying recent culture and politics. He was totally lost in the 70s fashion wise though 😂. I moved, so I'm not sure what he's doing now.
@@Emiliapocalypse ,it was up in Washington. I want to say KJR? I think he went to UW. His brother that was helping him was in the Bremerton area though.
The things you learnrd in the first 19 years of life are equally mysterious to the rest of us. This gives you a valuable perspective to help you navigate this next chapter of your life. Good luck!
Girl I love you so much! I grew up sheltered and poor and I can relate on some things. Appreciate you sharing what it's like learning to live unsheltered, if I can put it that way. English was new to me at the age of 14. And so was the extreme culture shock. My biological family never went to restaurants either. Everything was so different from the surrounding population. I used to tell people google is my husband he teaches me everything 😹 but I know there's also a lot of bad advice on there, especially when it comes to medical symptoms you try to figure out what's wrong. I do pay attention to what sources I get my information from and really compare several so I don't get misguided. Hello from Idaho! One girl to another, healing is a beautiful journey. We got this 💪
@@lizzieenswellness I forgot to mention I was born in Ukraine and moved to Idaho in 1998 when I was 14. When I was little, my parents could've lost all 10 kids due to (basically being Christian) having their friends come over to have a peaceful church service, sing songs preach and pray together. They could've gone to prison, communism didn't allow anything Christian.
Growing up in Britain in the 60s and 70s, we only had brown or white bread, but now there are so many different varieties and you have to be more specific in some situations. Brown bread is usually called wholemeal or granary (not wheat bread as in the US), but people would know what you meant.
Yeah, I'm not Amish, and I call it "brown bread." And so do most of the ppl I know. That Subway employee was just dense. Incidentally, as a Canadian, I often get weird looks from people in the USA based on the vocabulary I use, so I think your experience is more universal than you think.
As a Chicana (American-born child of Mexican-born immigrants), I can confirm that there are always going to be cultural gaps. I didn't hear of many popular bands until my 20s.
An Australian friend was raised by parents who loved classical music. That's all the family listened to, so the kids assumed that was true in every family.
As a black South African, we also call it brown bread when it is brown and white bread when it is white.😂😂😂 And I honestly don't want to distinguish it any other way because it's late in the day and it's really just bread. The bread won't tell me it identifies as wheat bread, the bread knows I bite so... I'm a black person and you're a brown bread let's go.😭🤣😂 On a serious note though, I enjoyed this video. I find it all so interesting, thank you for sharing your your experiences with us. And yes, it is not your fault that you don't know what everyone else seem to know. 🙂
Right!! I'm south African too (although I am white...but genuinely not sure how that's relevant😅) and we say brown and white bread. I don't think I've heard another South African say differently!!
I grew up poor, so we didn't go to the movies, and every time the TV broke again, it might take _years_ before we could afford to get it repaired. (This was back in the days before electronics became disposable items, so repair was normal and cheap, not ludicrous.) So I missed out on a _lot_ of what all the other kids knew. I never saw Sesame Street or the Muppets until I was grown and had a kid of my own, and even that was only at my inlaws' house, because as an adult I still didn't have TV. Instead, I read lots and lots and _lots_ of books for entertainment. It's a pity, really, that we don't usually learn until later in life how much having a truly diverse set of friends with vastly different backgrounds and experiences can enrich our lives.
You know, I'm 44 years old, grew up in modern society, have traveled all over the US most of my life, and am pretty well versed in a number of topics, including history, theology, pop culture, and many other things. Guess what? I still sometimes ask "What's that mean?" or "What are you talking about?". I still encounter references to things that I've never heard of. So, yeah, don't feel bad about it, at all. Don't be embarrassed about it. Also, don't fully trust Google. Not everything on Google is accurate.
Sweet girl, I am glad you don’t feel bad anymore about what you don’t know! When I was small, I always felt like everyone knew more than me because they had American parents and mine were from South America. Talking about music at school made me self conscious because I didn’t know popular music. I assumed if someone knew answers in class (and I didn’t) it was because their American parents gave them exposure to more things. But eventually I figured out the really obvious fact that every person has to learn things for the first time. And the first time is different for everyone. 😊
3:07 many years ago, when i hadn't been in the US that long, i went into a Chipotle (or was it a Qdoba? ehh 🤷♂) , placed my order, and asked for a tortilla on the side; they asked me "Flour or Wheat?"... i stared at them blank-faced, thinking, "what do you mean, 'flour or wheat', aren't all tortillas made from wheat flour?" (i knew by then they didn't sell corn tortillas there)... then they literally held up the 2 types and i said "OH! You mean white or brown!!! 🤦♂🤦♂"
I can relate to the pop culture thing. My parents were really religious and really restricted the TV we were allowed to watch. I definitely grew up with an awareness of things that existed. Like I've heard about the movie Top Gun, and I've heard the song Danger Zone before.... but until this video I had no idea they were connected.
I didn't grow up as sheltered as you describe, but I also didn't know the movie and the song were connected until now. I've never watched the movie, but I've heard the song and I meme the "highway to the danger zone" line because a conlang I taught myself has several words ending in a similar sound to zone. Highway to the muo-zone (muoson/ocean)
I don't recall ever seeing anyone on these videos cut left-handed. Refreshing for a fellow lefty. Thank you! Ps this is so interesting. Sometimes, I wish we would live in a simpler time, kind of like Amish. But then I recall the many many limitations there .
Absolutely never be afraid of your own ignorance, it’s never wrong to ask. Don’t be like me, an old lady who was afraid to ask. It’s freeing that I grew out of that fear! Doesn’t bother me if I look like an idiot!
Yeah, "brown bread" is a perfectly acceptable term used all over the world. Whoever was acting difficult with you was just doing it out of maliciousness.
This is what learning languages is like imo. I only speak english as a second language (I'm german) and I really wanted to learn french but didn't have the interest as much as I did in english. When I was 12 I started watching every show and everything that was og in english, in english instead of in german (german has one of the best dubbing for every movie/ show and so on). I learned so much about everything while still learning things in german. Now I have friends from all over the world (though, not really from asia :I) and it is super interesting to learn stuff about their upbringing. I think you probably also learned a lot in the amish community that people seek out for in the "normal" western world. Idk how much you know about things like cooking or crafting but those are things people have to learn later in their lifes by themselves because most people don't get it taught. You can take something from most places and the rest of life is just to be open and learn about new things, countries, cultures and people. Thank you for the video! It's the first I have watched from you.
There’s no shame in not knowing. The real shame is in the community. I live in Amish country. Recently stopped at a gas station and on the other side of the pump was a construction crew with a group of Amish men. One of them picked up the contractors cell phone and loudly asked “how do you get the porn on this thing?” Spoke volumes about the community.
It’s not just you being from Amish. There’s loads of people from different walks of life and other countries that don’t know what things here in pop culture America are. We had a foster daughter that turned eighteen when she was with us and because of oppression and trauma, she was mentally stuck at about eleven years old in her mind. She came from poverty and had never experienced tons of things that my other kids had simply from lack of exposure to them. She had never had to learn responsibility, or to be independent, or how to make wise choices on her own the way that most people would going through puberty. Just the small difference between abject poverty (and yes there are still people in the US that live in total poverty)- and middle class was a huge culture shock for her. She had never been to the dentist or doctor. She had never had a computer at home, or internet access. Lots of firsts for her and her family was from the US (no other country learning curves etc. ) I feel like too many people who grow up in a certain culture place themselves in that “box” and stay there for the rest of their lives. Not realizing that others have not come from those same places like them.
But you also learned so many things that the rest of us DIDN’T learn! The trade off is great! You learn from us, we learn from you! That’s FABULOUS! ♥️
I've never really been into pop culture. Most people make references that I don't get. I just say, "Oh, is that from a movie? Didn't see it." So, relatable lol
Great info you gave. Im American. With so much information out there, you cant know everything. I also look up things when i dont know them. I love to learn since i was a kid. I also ask trusted people or the person who mentioned this. I love your sweater.
I grew up keeping to myself a lot and also just sticking to a small number of songs/movies/TV shows/books/games that I liked, so I totally understand the feeling of not understanding references and people seeming so shocked I don’t know 😂
I *love* your sweater. ❤ Also, I know you know this, but your life experience is absolutely valid. Thank you for bringing this to us on the outside. We have it, too, just differently, because everyone's is slightly different anyway. You are brave. ❤
Fascinating! I am so glad you are public (by being on social media) because it gives us a peek in to another culture. As well as the fun of your transitioning into main society. If enough people come out I suppose the culture could fade out of existence, so it is good you are preserving some info that we can gather by your comparison info of there to here. I love learning about other cultures so this is a real pleasure. Thanks for great work!
I grew up with the internet practically raising me, and I still don't get a lot of pop culture references. There is absolutely so much media that exists now that it's impossible to know every single musician or see every single movie. And personally, my motto has become that I don't have to watch something just because it's super popular, if it doesn't look interesting to me. Maybe if I ever have a boyfriend that really likes Top Gun, I would watch it with him. But personally, I'll just never choose to sit and watch some gritty action movie on my own. I suppose you can't know the things you'll like though until you've at least given some things a chance, on the other hand. Just do what makes you happy, for me thats not trying to keep up with everything current too much and just live life at my own pace. The more important connections that you will find in life are not based on liking the same band or tv show.
also highkey, I always enjoy showing people things they've never seen before. I love seeing people's first reactions to my favorite movies and TV shows. so, if you tell someone you've never seen something, they should feel special and excited that they get to be there when you first experience a pop culture thing.
We're all in a state of learning new things all the time, but I think some people just lose sight of that because their worlds are so insular in a certain way that they are no longer being exposed to information that registers as new, or makes them question whether they know or understand what is happening. I think it takes a lot of courage and self esteem to be able to say, especially in the US, "actually I don't know what you're talking about, could you explain it please" or to just say "I'm willing to learn but I just really don't understand what you're talking about could you give me some more information?" I think a big part of American culture somehow is this ingrained sense that not knowing stuff is somehow wrong/bad even on a moral level, when in reality everyone learns different things depending on where they grow up, and everyone is going to have areas/things they know nothing about it's normal and completely moral neutral. I'm from the west coast for instance and we don't have very large insects or poisonous or venomous animals so much, but some of my friends are from Arkansas and they do so part of their education where they grew up was learning how to identify and spot snakes and other wildlife while outdoors for safety, but I never had to learn anything like that because where I grew up we don't have wildlife that poses a threat like my friends did. So long story short I'm glad you don't feel ashamed or embarrassed anymore, it's difficult in the US to get over it so that's very impressive I know I still sometimes struggle with that though I'm working on it, and I just wish more people were aware that knowledge is not ingrained, and all of us are just products of our upbringing and environment and that's why we know different things.
Girl, you are all good. I come from a very liberal family, but they did not let us watch tv or movies growing up so we could read and do stuff. I don't know any of those pop culture things either. Be open about it and your friends and acquaintances will have fun sharing with you!!
I'm much older and many : cult type religions do the same thing about saying extreme lies; and when you leave home, go to college, university, etc, it's still the same; but nothing really speeds up the process either. I was raised Pentecostal and always said it's kind of Amish w/o the bonnets and we had electricity, BUT NO TV... and when you were talking about top gun, I still didn't know that meaning...! Lol ❤😂😭😅🙃😊🙏❤️ I now realize that even though it was strict, the Bible didn't lie, and I gave my heart back to Jesus w/o the religion but live by way of relationship with Jesus with the Holy Spirit. God bless you always. ❤🙏❤
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@@lizzieenswellnessgood deal. I live in an area with a large Amish community. The Amish have a VERY healthy lifestyle. I have several friends, one family in particular, never eat anything they didn't grow or hunt. I guess the kids might get away with things because parents don't expect their kids to lie. You have the work ethic . Amish probably don't have a phrase "good enough". It has to be right or it must be fixed. My house was built by Amish, resided and reroofed 20 years later by Amish when I decided I wanted steel. Just had a 40X60 barndominium built at a new location for my old age. Nobody nowadays especially, works like your average Amish person, eats or labors like Amish. Your father is in a place where he can feel pride in you and I vam sure he does. Oh, also, no English takes praise in the same manner... Have a great life. Hope your mom is okay, I am sure your community helped out, and there are still children there now too. Amish that 'work out' usually put in a full day's labor for an average English before they leave for their job.
I am an American and haven't watched most of the movies anyway...so I would be right there with you on pop culture. I don't consider myself actually hindered because of it, though. There's a lot I know about other things that it seems the average young person in the states doesn't seem to know.
Honestly, I've never met an Amish person, like, Idk anything about the rules and customs so this was very interesting and informative to me. Love the fit, btw. Personally I find malls pretty simple, but I've only been to one, and that was like, 4 times, so... I mean, I could never find someone else, but I'd know where myself is.
The way I see it having a friend like this just means you get to relive old movies and music. You get to see it through their eyes and experience it for the first time all over again. It's kind of cool when you think about it. Make a new friend and you get to break out all those old movies, and cds - double win. 😄😄
That was great to hear and understand, thank you very much! I have studied Amish life to some extent, and I have often thought of how many modern references I take for granted having grown up in modern society. I was glad to hear your experiences! Also, for some reason, the amount of food you have on that cutting board is making me nervous because I think some will fall off as you are cutting it lol
You are a remarkable young woman! I am so impressed with your maturity and self-sufficiency. I myself grew up in a large American compound in Saudi Arabia. Even though I was raised speaking English and with many American (and Canadian, from my mom) customs, moving to the US when I was 21 was a HUGE culture shock. And being autistic, I've never been able to understand slang. Lol
So I know it's not exactly the same (obviously), but I grew up Mormon, and -- yeah. You just can't help what you don't know, and there's so much to learn. I know that feeling of your life just starting when you leave and you're finally living in the real world. Good luck.
Even as a "normal American" from the Midwest, I can totally relate to some of these things, especially the pop culture things. I haven't watched American TV since 2008 or been to a seen a mainstream American movie made after 2015 because I have Amazon Prime Video and I watch specific craft/goth/art/cooking content on RU-vid for the most part. It occasionally makes conversations with my colleagues annoying, but I'm not keeping up on all the stupid crap just because they think it's what everyone should watch. I'm not afraid to tell them I don't care and I haven't seen it because I have better things to do.
You don't have to know everything about anything. For instance, think about people who actually live in other continents and have no knowledge about American Pop culture or viceversa. Even in the same continent there are a lot of differences and things we don't know about each other. I'm from South America (Colombia), and there's a lot of difference in culture from every country, from Canada to Argentina!
I'm glad you realize that you don't have to feel badly about not knowing about things that you've never been exposed to. ❤ I just moved recently ( little over a year) to Ohio. There's a really big Amish community in the rural areas. I think it's really interesting how they live. So if you think about it, you're becoming fluent in another way of life, and you know kinda twice as much. Idk if I explained that correctly 😅 . Basically I love your videos and think it's cool that you experienced two ways of life 😊
I had no idea that Amish people didn't have social security numbers, but it makes sense thinking about it My grandpa lived across the street from an Amish family {He lived out in the middle of nowhere} and I remember how we would all watch each other from our respective fences until set of adults would come get us. I spoke with the other family one time and one time only, when they came to my grandpa's funeral. Myself and the other kids were all adults by then and it was surreal to have a conversation for the first time in the roughly fifteen years we'd watched each other , even if it was very brief.
It is not uncommon to call whole wheat bread 'brown bread' in the USA, so that subway employee was either being difficult or else didn't know something that most Americans know.
I’ve grown up going to malls all my life and I still get lost. I have no sense of direction. Put me in a building and I’m lost. I pretty much live under a rock. I’ve been sheltered all my life. I’m finally learning so many new things at 60+ years old. It’s not easy but my faith gets me through.
I used to get lost in the mall as a teenager. I could never remember which direction I was going before I went into a shop, so when I came out, I would be turned around. I discovered the "you are here" map displays were pretty helpful! 😄
Never heard of top gun or danger zone until u just said it. Grew up in greenville, ms. America is a big place and there are so many communities to be apart of. From religious,.to racial,.to geographic. Culture varies widely. We all were socialized slightly differently.
Takes a lot of courage to leave behind what you know and enter a culture that's foreign to you. Imagine how lost so many of your friends would be if they had to start living on an Amish-type farm.
This is how I feel specifically around SpongeBob references because I didn’t have cable as a kid 😂 even the meme that’s my pic on here, no idea what scene that’s from.
I'm going to start saying brown bread. Also, people won't know everything. There's a lot of pop culture I don't know (and don't care about), which as a kid I was embarrassed not to know and would hide exactly like you are saying, until I learned confidence. I know a lot about RU-vid, but it's not all of RU-vid because that's impossible. Different circles know different things.
I am now very curious how someone who lived in a society that rejects technology would approach video games. You get to have an experience many people in the gaming community would kill to have again: the feeling of total wonder when video games are new to you and everything seems like magic.
I grew up with video games but am not interested as an adult. I cannot my sister's kids by forgetting which buttons do what on the controllers. Atari joysticks were easier!
I love that I stumbled on your channel. We took my grandparents to Amish country in Lancaster in the early 80s. My grandfather, born in 1914, got teary because it reminded him of the German community in WA where he was reared. They weren't Amish, but it was long enough ago the life was similar.
I still call it brown bread and in Australia we also call it wholemeal or multigrain bread. Wheat bread is only said in Subway because we know that is the American term for it.
As a non-Amish person who also, but inexplicably, missed out on a lot of pop culture from my generation (I had all the access to it, my parents never stopped me from doing anything, I just... wasn't interested, apparently, and so many times I wasn't even aware or "in the loop"): I would have immediately gone "perilous area" for "danger zone". I have no idea what Top Gun even is (I'm guessing... movie?), but I sure as heck read all of Lemony Snicket! 😂😂
I have to admit, sounds satisfying for someone that is used to evading the law to get a wake-up call in the form of being helpless against evidence collection.
Popculture is usually regionally limited, too, which is beginning to change since the arrival of the internet. Americans wouldn't get German popculture references from the 80s, either. And vice versa. Most of it is also so fleeting that it is almost not worth the effort to learn it. It is a NicetoKnow, not ImportanttoGet. There are more important things (like China being on the other side of the globe, not under the earth, or that New York is a city in the USA), or that evolution is a thing ;) Also, getting lost in a huge new place like a mall is totally normal :D
Hey don’t feel bad, I was never even Amish and even I’ve never heard that song before lol. I would have had no idea what they were talking about either
Teaching an important lesson through her experience of not knowing. Yep, all of us have times when we're the lost one in a group/situation. Being able to "own" it & move forward is generally the best & most efficient plan. If those around you fault you for it, that's THEIR deficiency.
I was sheltered from the world and pop culture growing up due to strict parents. Not as strict as the Amish, but I can certainly relate to a ton of what you said. I wish they'd at least taught me some of the life skills known by the Amish, like sewing a cooking XD
There is so much we take as a given until we are involved (one way or another) with people from a very different culture. Just today, I had to do a lesson for my s/o about gingerbread and gingerbread men, the tale, the saying, the whole thing, as it was completely unknown to my beloved!
I grew up English with no relation to Amish, but to be honest, I don't even know the Top Gun reference either. I grew up in a different religious minority myself but not necessarily sheltered. I love how you concluded that we can not control how we were all raised, but we can be patient and compassionate with each other. Thanks for your video. 💜
Sometimes neurodiverse (in case you haven't come across that expression yet, it includes people whose brains are different to the point where their learning and experiencing of life is very different - autism, etc) people can have similar experiences. We all need to be patient with each other.
That part about the white or brown bread may be a regional thing as that's what we'd call it out here on the prairies. I guess, "wheat bread" is also accurate but doesn't sound right unless you're saying "whole wheat."
Most kids growing up are sheltered from the real world for the first 18 years of their life but even more so for the Amish. I am looking forward to watching more of your videos.
These days with so many options for media consumption more and more often people who aren't Amish or transplants from other cultures don't have the same references, so I wouldn't worry too much about it if I were you. When I was growing up there were only 3 networks (channels on the TV that broadcast the same thing all over the country), so everybody had the same references because we all watched the same stuff. I really think that how far from true that is now is part of why the country is so fractured. I know you've already taken a tremendous leap out of a box and I applaud you for that, just try to stay open to life around you and you'll be fine.
I homeschooled, and I don't know lots of pop culture things. I'm grateful, because when I found out what those things were I was like, "Holy cow! No thank you! I'll just stay innocent." Lol
My mom's neurologist is a Seventh Day Adventist. When I was explaining how she was fairly clear headed and even discussing Anthony Hopkins and all his roles, he asked me who Anthony Hopkins was. When I sheepishly said "an actor", he just shook his head to indicate he didn't know any actors, I guess.
I grew up SDA. Completely different specifics, and not quite as distant from the mainstream, and yet I've had so many of the same feelings as I rebuilt my life post-cult. I feel like, after 10 years or so, I'm mostly caught up with the world, and not constantly feeling that "I'm the only one here who doesn't know this" feeling. But I do still feel a bit alienated and separate from all the people in my life who got to have a normal childhood.
This is a very interesting video but something in me just really wants you to put those chopped potatoes in some sort of receptacle, rather than amongst the un-chopped potatoes.
The up side is there are a whole lot of cool cultural things for you to experience. And with your attitude you'll probably have a good time. Ask some of your more hip friends to turn you on to music and movies they think are important. And fun. I'm a geezer hippie, so my suggestions are stuff like Jimi Hendrix, Santana, The Beatles, Star Wars, any Mel Brooks or Marx brothers movies. And Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon. It was on the best-selling charts longer than any other album has ever been. And it's permeated our culture. Your might laugh at my suggestions cuz they're all way old, but I assure you they're solid.
