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Facts about Mexican Mennonites
1. Their villages look like rural Western Canada...
2. Many of them came from rural Western Canada in the 1920s.
3. They left Western Canada, as they had left Holland, Prussia, and Russia before that, for fear they would be forcibly assimilated, in this case through public education. Mexico offered them a special (Spanish-language) contract.
5. Each village has a number, not a name.
6. Unlike many of the American Amish, they use cars and electricity without hesitation. They are quite prosperous, in a Mennonite sort of way.
7. They still make cheese using methods from centuries ago.
8. Their best cheeses, which are non-pasteurized, are illegal in the United States.
9. Many of their road signs and advertisements are written in hochdeutsch, but they speak eighteenth century plattdeutsch. Their Spanish is sing-song and halting all at once.
10. They bake little cookies called "Galletas Menonitas," and they eat borscht and tacos.
11. The adjacent Tarahumaras make for a striking contrast.
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There's something sort of creepy about a community where everyone is blond. It's probably because there was some sci-fi/horror movie (whose title I can't remember) about just that sort of community, and as you undoubtedly have guessed it wasn't a _nice_ community :)
Posted by: Peter at Feb 5, 2006 11:27:32 AM
I was unaware of these Mennonite settlements in Chihuahua. There are also Mennonite settlements in western Belize that also seem to be quite prosperous, again in a Mennonite sort of way.
Posted by: Strophyx at Feb 5, 2006 9:43:32 PM
We have Mennonites here in the Yucatan too. Rumour has it they live somewhere out towards Campeche. Our friend, a guy who owns a plumbing supply company, says they are one of his biggest customers. They walk around Merida in their uniform of plaid shirts and overalls (the men) and longsleeved, long dresses with hats (the women) and they sell cheese (men only). We tried the cheese once...didn't particularly like it. Thanks for the info!
Posted by: Working Gringo at Feb 6, 2006 3:06:45 AM
That only accounts for the Old Colony Mennonites in Durango and Chihuahua. There is a growing indiginous Mennonite Church growning along the Rio Grande.
The Old Colony Mennonites had moved to Canada from Ukraine after the Russian Revolution, to avoid persecution by Stalin. They moved from Canada to Mexico due more to a growning colony population than problems with the Canadian government.
In the 1970's, many moved to Seminole Texas because the Mexican government was making it hard for them to own property.
While the Amish are Mennonite, not all Mennonites are Amish. Unlike the Old-Order Amish (horse & buggy) there are very few remaining Old Order Mennonites.
Via con Dios
Posted by: Micheal McEvoy at Feb 6, 2006 6:26:37 PM
Hi I was just curious.. Why are some mennonites
titled as Mexican mennonites? Do they speak
spanish? is this where they origionated from?
Just curious, thanx , melissa.
Posted by: sue at Feb 8, 2006 11:44:22 PM
I am a Mexican Mennonite from Nuevo Ideal, Durango, Mexico. My great grandfather was Benjamin Goertzen, one of the 6 delegates that was received in the Mexican Presidential Palace where they signed the "document of privileges". I was raised in Canada so I have a different viewpoint about my culture than most Mexican Mennonites. The Mennonites in Mexico have forgotten why their ancestors settled there, the elders chose this remote place to get away from the civilized world and live life in unity with their own people. But there were too many rules and if you broke any you would be shunned and forced to make a public confession in front of the entire "campo" that you lived in. By the late 60's early 70's many got fed up with this sort of lifestyle and started moving back to Canada, so the elders used scare tactics and told the people that Canada was an evil country and anyone who was to move there was guaranteed to go to Hell------More to come....
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Also, if anybody has any questions about mexican mennonites i can probably answer every one of them, or at least most of them
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Hi, I dont know my father very well, but what I do know is that his family were mennonites from Durango Mexico and his father was murdered and his family had to leave the town ( more to the story) but im just trying to make it brief as possible. Do you have any info in the Arambula family that lived there back before the 1970's?
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