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I'm an Amish and don't appreciate being called a bellend.

A huge chunk of the "Pennsylvania Dutch" Amish came from the Palatinate[1], which German dialect informs their speech, and explains why outsiders are collectively "The English".

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palatinate_(region)

They didn't come from England, English is generally a second language, and they isolate their communities from the rest of American English culture. Their use of "the English" is pretty fitting