Blue Creek, Belize
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making is also a Mennonite specialty.

On approaching Blue Creek, visitors will notice the sugar cane fields often seen in other parts of Belize are replaced with sorghum and cornfields. Blue Creek's Mennonites have chosen to use modern equipment, unlike other Mennonite communities in Belize. Blue Creek's settlers have implicated damming projects, built a hydroelectric plant, and several furniture-making operations.

The Mennonites are easily detected by their way of dress; the men wear denim overalls and straw hats while women often dress in print dresses and wide brimmed bonnets. The Mennonites are known as the "unobtrusive ones" and speak Plattdeutsch, a low German dialect. The Mennonites refuse to become involved in government and military; refuse to take oaths and stress adult baptism.