What utter *beep*


The movie AND the book series. For starters, let's deal with the description alone. Culture is not inherited genetically - The fact that Katie is adopted is not an explanation for why she would feel "disconnected" from her culture. If that's the case, I can't wait until Angelina Jolie's daughter Zahara decides to give up her luxurious lifestyle and go to live as a rural Ethiopian subsistence farmer.

This series is the creation of an evangelical with a flawed and biased perspective of the Amish, and I hope her ethnocentric romanticism isn't being taken as an accurate understanding of the Amish way of life by viewers and readers.

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Culture isn't...but something like a love or aptitude for music might be, somewhat. Music is something that different people have different aptitudes for, and something that shows early on in kids, so there's probably some genetic component. I didn't get that she felt disconnected, I got that she had this love for music that she couldn't reconcile. There are plenty of non-adopted Amish who leave the culture for various reasons.

Unfortunately for someone like her, she's pretty much screwed now either way. She doesn't feel wholly Amish but she also will probably not fit into the "english" world, besides the fact that everyone she knows is Amish.

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This is an old post but, why not?

While I won't disagree with you that culture is not genetic, the feeling of "disconnection" Katie felt is not at all uncommon among adopted children, including, in some instances, ones who don't/didn't know they were adopted in the first place.

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