Why do The Majority of Americans believe that all modern Jews where once Chasidic,came to American shaved off their beards, threw away their black coats and assimilated into modern society as present day so called secular Jews? Why aren’t  modern day Christian painted with the same broad brush thought as stemming from the Amish?  Both of the above analogys are false.Chasidism started in around  circa 1770 o in The Ukraine and incomposed   half of East Euroups Jews but not half of those who have immigrated to the U.S.A before WW I ( from a period of 1876 to 1922) and earlier for German Jews,   from 1840 -1855, before that Spanish- Portuguese in Colonial times ( this is the non Chasdic population) , The Chasidic population came to the U.S A after the holocaust after WWII.  Thats it in a nut shell, condensed for this brief article, *above picture of Amish Men