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This is an *extremely* interesting point about the role that the (theoretically isolation-seeking!) Mennonites play in cracking open and developing frontier landscapes, and again echoes the processes seen between formally colonized states in North America and settlers
Colonies are often located so as to minimizeexposure to worldly influences (SI4), ‘close enough so as not to make their products unmarketabledue to transport costs, but far enough in order to attain a level of isolation that would restricteveryday travel to town, especially for youngsters’ (Cañás Bottos, 2008, p. 72). Over time, however,the surroundings of most colonies end up developing, partly as a result of the Mennonites’ ownactivities, which undermines their attempts to remain separated from the world. Early migrants fromCanada to Mexico, for example, were concerned about ‘everything turning English’ around theirCanadian colonies (Bowen, 2001, p. 467). Those who later migrated from Mexico to Bolivia andArgentina reported that Mexican Mennonites’ ‘acceptance of pick-up trucks, cars, electricity andother aspects of modern life had breached the practice of separation from the world’ (Cañás Bottos,2008, p. 220)." KEY POINT: "This apparent paradox of Mennonites as settlers in search of isolation and as engines ofmodernization and frontier development has been raised repeatedly in the literature (e.g., Goossen,2016)"
March 8, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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May 16, 2026 at 6:07 AM
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February 23, 2026 at 1:38 PM