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Meet the Mennonites: Inside the Ultra-Conservative Community | ENDEVR Documentary

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Meet the Mennonites: Inside the Ultra-Conservative Community | Investigative Documentary Watch 'The Last Free Place in America: Slab City' here: Like the Amish, the ultra-conservative Christian community of the Mennonites rejects modern society and lives a life frozen in the 19th century. Nearly all Mennonites live in self-sufficient colonies, embracing isolation, which helps protect them from the temptations of the modern world. Now, for the first time, one of these communities has agreed to open their doors to our cameras. At first sight, time seems to have stopped in the colony of Little Belize, in South America. People travel around on horse-drawn carriages and still speak Plattdeutsch, an old German dialect. But even here, signs of the outside world are creeping in. Wilhelm, the community’s former doctor, was recently expelled for owning a mobile phone. Fearing their community is being tainted, some traditional members, like Abram and his family, hav

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