Outsiders may not be in a position of making firm judgments on this matter, but the 20 signed statements , taken as a whole, present a powerful indictment of the NGC.
A few of them can be quoted briefly to indicate the depth of anger at the colony. The 20 letters express similar ideas—one can assume that colony members have been discussing the series a lot over the past 10 weeks—but most also express their own personal feelings of betrayal. We love the way our dresses look and we will not wear ourselves another way. Several of the letters expressed regret about going to a bar in the city of Medicine Hat, Alberta. Another Hutterite, Pamela Hofer, expressed her regret at participating at all in the series.
She writes that she was asked to leave her normal working duties to be a part of staged scenes. Kristie Hofer was most disappointed by her perception that the show neglected the real daily lives of the Hutterites. Perhaps the National Geographic Channel did decide that the realities of life in the colony were somewhat dull.
As a unit of Fox, the NGC must make profits. The Amish, a far better known peaceful society, have learned long ago to avoid Hollywood producers, who simply want to exploit them for their own benefit.
The Hutterites have presumably learned a hard lesson. The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Submit Search. Those elders, he said, are unhappy that the Hutterites on the show chose to use the camera to talk about education, the role of women and the struggles of adapting to modern ways. Most on the King Ranch Colony are pleased with and proud of the show, Collins said, but he believes they are now under external pressure to lodge a protest.
Bertha Hofer, a mother of three children who was featured in the series, said the first three episodes were accurate depictions but then producers began presenting them with storylines. Hofer said the elders from Canada told them they wanted the colony members to tell the truth. But Hofer said she also feared that she would be punished after the show followed her and her daughter Claudia looking at a college in Great Falls.
She said she is fighting for a full education for her children, while the elders believe in an eighth-grade education for most colony members, she said. Colony spokeswoman Mary-Ann Kirkby said the levels of Hutterite education differ by colony and by sect. Check her status on Facebook and you'll read how much she hates gossip but definitely likes to get into "just the right amount" of trouble with her twin brother Clinton and younger brother Carver. You are successfully logged out.
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