Cameron Dueck

The author, a Mennonite (or anabaptist), traveled via motorbike from his birthplace in Canada to Argentina stopping at Mennonite settlements along the way. First, a number of practices and beliefs are similar to how I was raised as a Baptist but I’d never associated them with religion. That was very eye-opening. The author, now a very modern resident of Hong Kong, seemed hypercritical of the people he met and their ways. But eventually he was able to recognize the Mennonite ways deep in his own personality. This book definitely faced Mennonites in all its forms. Even more eye-opening and downright scary were the mass rapes in the community in Bolivia. The uneducated population are kept that way to ensure they maintain their old ways, but also left the women without the understanding to say what had happened to them. Tragic. An excellent coverage of many Central & South American cultures. It was very interesting.… (más)