Amish in the City
 

TWO-HOUR PREMIERE EPISODE
Wednesday, July 28, 8PM ET/PT

AMISH IN THE CITY, a new reality series, will provide a unique look into the Amish journey of discovery, known as rumspringa, through a group of young adults who have left their spiritually devout, rural communities to experience life in the big city, with six roommates from various metropolitan areas.

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I read a book on the Amish once. It was really interesting learning about this "closed community" and the different problems that go on and ways the community deals with them. I remember frequent trips to Amish country as a little girl. My mom still loves to go there with her retired friends to hit up the outlets.

I wonder how the Amish community feels about those who are doing this - will they still be part of the community when it's all over?

I suppose if you're going to break out of the traditions, might as well do it in front of a national audience and make some money off of it.

Good question. Will they want to be a part of the community when its over,lol

someone correct me if i'm wrong, but i believe there is a time when amish teenagers are encouraged to go out into the "real world" and experience it for themselves. they are not truly amish until they come back and give their devotion to being amish. i believe that if they decide to stay in the "real world" they are basically excommunicated from the community forever.

so this must be their exploration time for these teens.

the question is are these people really amish??

i saw the preview for this yesterday. in the end they were crying so i am guessing that they want to stay in the city.

You are right. That's what the Amish on this show are doing.

I'm with you on this - and I don't think they really are Amish.

Rumspringa is a trial period for Amish youth, anywhere from teenagers to twenty-somethings who have their faith tested for a certain length of time...sometimes it's as simple as being allowed to stay in town for a few weeks, watching TV and hanging out with local kids...but on some rare occasions, they go into the city and live there for weeks and try to make a living...the community has actually experienced some hardships when kids out on rumspringa bring back drugs and 'worldly temptations' and habits, like drinking, innapropriate dancing and pre-marital sex and it permeates the community.

It's not about being 'truly Amish,' it's more like adult baptism for Baptists. They have to be fully aware of what they're giving up/ taking on before they can become full members of the church. And depending on the strictness of the community, sometimes they are excommunicated, but other times they are just asked not to live in the community - they can visit with their families and live outside of town. Sometimes they even convert and be Mennonites or another less-strict sect.

P.S. you were right about these kids not being Amish, a lot of them just come from Amish background i heard. One of the guys has already been on his rumspringa and another of the girls doesn't even call herself Amish. It's all a bunch of :p if you ask me.

Here is some more info on the show:

http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/28170.htm

The non-Amish kids seem like the real freaks on the show. I'm going to at least check out the first episode.

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True but I dont thing they actually go somewhere like NY. I get the impression it is more of a at home go crazy period where they do drugs, drink and . They are all named Abner Stoltzfus.

To counter, we should put some city people in Amish country...

Didn't PBS do a show similar to that??

Oh yeah,

I stand corrected.