03
Aug
2018
The Amish population consists of many separate communities that intermarry, preventing the direct inbreeding suggested by critics.
There are tons and tons of separate communities around the country. A lot of them fairly close together. Like the Pennsylvania Dutch is something that is notorious. It's not one group. There's a bunch of different groups. So often people will. It's not called Dave's Pennsylvania Dutch. Right. Right. It's not a whole, it's not a franchise. You're part of this community over here, community A. And often there'll be a mixer with community B. And you'll meet someone and marry someone from Community B. And then you'll have kids. And then the kid that you have with someone from community B might have a kid with community C. It's not going to necessarily end up in direct inbreeding because it's not like community A, B, or C is just one family.