Southern Manitoba Mennonites; History and Current Realities - Part 1: The Russia Experience - with Ralph Friesen
Description
Afterthought co-host Erika Wiebe has Mennonite heritage and grew up in rural Saskatchewan. During her 40 plus years in Winnipeg she noticed a difference in political and social norms between her Mennonite experience, and the Mennonites of Southern Manitoba. The Covid pandemic has highlighted some of these differences with the high rates of vaccine hesitancy and opposition to government mandates in Southern Manitoba.
In a quest to find out if maybe these differences can be explained at all by different immigration histories between the two groups, Erika spoke to Ralph Friesen, author of three books which inform this issue. He also grew up in Steinbach.
This episode is the first of two, and focuses on the Russian history, prior to the Mennonite immigration to Southern Manitoba.
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