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	USATODAY.com - 'Amish in the City' wrongs a rite
		Produced in secret to bypass controversy, and rushed onto the air as a TV stealth attack, Amish is a reality show perversion of "rumspringa" —; a rite of passage in which young Amish adults may elect to leave the community and experience life in the outside world.
		The five Amish youths — three men and two women — are not plied with booze and hookers in an attempt to lure them into a life of modern sin.
		And while the six city kids do treat their new roommates like freaks, the show's sympathy is clearly on the side of the Amish.
	www.usatoday.com /life/television/reviews/2004-07-27-amish_x.htm (676 words)

	Amish in the City - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Amish in the City was an American reality television series by UPN.
		The show assumes and promotes the disputed view that the practice of allowing Amish teenagers to enjoy freedom from the Amish religious code is a normal part of the Rumspringa, or "running around", period before they decide whether to join the Amish church.
		Typically, nearly 90% of teenagers will end their Rumspringa with the choice to be baptized as Amish, however in the conclusion of the show all of the teenagers chose not to return to the Amish church.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Amish_in_the_City (264 words)

	Amish in the City Links
		Amish people at the age of 16 leave their homes and communities and test the outside world and enjoy the things forbidden in the Amish world.
		PR Newswire 9/20/04 Amish In The City Season Finale Airs Tuesday Night at 9 p.m.
		TVRules 9/9/04 Amish In The City: Episode 7, September 8 Summary
	www.sirlinksalot.net /amishinthecity.html (443 words)

	'Amish in the City' has a dull edge on the competition \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		"Amish in the City" partly comes from the mind of Daniel Laikind, developer and producer of "Devil's Playground," which looked at life among the Amish, who are devout Anabaptists.
		But there's no prize money in "Amish in the City." In fact, the 11 participants are provided with everything they need, including money, during their experience in La-La Land.
		Overall, the Amish come out on top as more intelligent, levelheaded, likable and interesting in "Amish in the City." This makes the show slightly more appealing than the rest of the vapid reality genre currently on the airwaves.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20040727/news_lz1c27amish.html (712 words)

	A former Amishman describes his objections to 'Amish in the City.' -- Beliefnet.com
		Because I wanted to pursue higher education-and because the Amish frown on such education--I shifted with my community's blessing to the Mennonite Church, which is part of the same Anabaptist history as the Amish.
		Amish assume truthfulness in all things--thus, they do not present themselves in any manner that is not real.
		Amish belief in this idea is so strong, for instance, that they object to swearing of oaths because they are committed to speaking truth always, not only under oath.
	www.beliefnet.com /story/149/story_14970_1.html (590 words)

	marmalade.ca » Amish in the City.
		So far, the Amish folk are MUCH more interesting than the western “City Kids” people, who seem to be your run-of-the-mill reality show tv: fl girl, gay guy, buff guy with weirdly spelled name, hoochie mama, musician.
		I think that the Amish have a better reason to want to do this show: They’ve never been exposed to western culture, and are on Rumspringa, the time in their lives when they step away from the Amish life and decide whether or not they want to be a part of that church or not.
		Fifty bucks says the producers of Amish in the City are cashing in on the critical and cult success of this docu.
	www.marmalade.ca /?p=1526 (926 words)

	Amish in the City
		Miriam has not gone back to the Amish, and has instead started to attend a non-Amish Christian church in Ohio led by a female pastor.
		Ruth is in the process of joining the Amish church with Marvin, who she plans to marry this fall.
		Meagan is still living with Harley, the golden retriever she adopted in Amish country on the show, who is now 75 pounds.
	www.newline.com /amishinthecity/where.html (351 words)

	washingtonpost.com: 'Amish in The City': Hollywood's Urban Desert
		The Amish, as was explained last night on the new UPN reality series "Amish in the City," don't do electricity, and they don't do the internal combustion engine.
		The first, two-hour episode of "Amish in the City" is, in fact, harder on the six city kids with whom the five Amish youth are forced to live in a vast, postmodern nightmare house in the Hollywood Hills.
		But finding six vapid city kids who fit the right cultural stereotypes, who were pretty enough and dull enough and vain enough to be foils for the Amish, that required some virtuosic casting.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A23547-2004Jul29?language=printer (973 words)

	Space and Culture: July 2004
		I have titled this paper Urban Tapestries: sensing the city and other stories as it became apparent when analysing the posts from the weblog of the Urban Tapestries Public Trial in December 2003 that participants were increasingly articulating their experience of the project using a multiplicity of sensory language.
		The city of Cuzco, "principal city and royal court of the twelve Inka kings of this realm, and bishopric of the church" - or more specifically the central open space - was the subject of my Masters thesis.
		The strange fact that superheroes always live in big cities persuades him that the liberating sight of Superman flying, Spider-Man swinging or Batman leaping through the skylines is again an attempt to domesticate the dehumanised concrete sprawl.
	spaceandculture.org /2004_07_01_archive.php (5107 words)

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		A couple months ago, plans were announced for a new reality TV show entitled "Amish in the City." The idea was to place Amish teens in a house in the big city and see what happened as they "discovered" the modern world.
		The idea immediately caused controversy and protests from local Congressmen, the Lancaster Chamber, and the Visitors Bureau, not to mention the Amish population.
		But this show, "Amish in the City," is really a serious mockery of the plain folk's religion.
	www.amishnews.com /publishersmessages/amishincity.htm (618 words)

	Dick Staub: Staublog - Amish & Evangelicals in the City
		The show features five “Amish” allegedly in the process of deciding whether or not to be baptized and remain in the Amish community.
		Amish expert Donald Kraybill argues that the five who appear on this show are already “ex-Amish” or they would never have appeared on the show.
		I think the legalistic rejection of technology, the uniformity of dress, the hierarchical roles of men and women, the strict cordoning off from society are inconsistent with newness in Jesus Christ, who was a presence in society and rejected the withdrawal of the Essenes in his day.
	www.dickstaub.com /culturewatch.php?record_id=726 (744 words)

	Zap2it - TV news - UPN's 'Amish in the City' Ready to Roll
		"Amish in the City," which will chronicle the lives of five young men and women taking part in the Amish rite of rumpsringa, completed its principal filming in the past week, and it's scheduled to premiere Wednesday, July 28.
		Rumspringa is an Amish rite of passage in which young men and women leave their communities -- which typically don't include motorized transportation, electronic media or fast food -- to spend some time in the outside world.
		"Amish in the City" puts five Amish youth in a Los Angeles house with six "city kids," including a club promoter, an aspiring musician and a student from the inner city.
	tv.zap2it.com /tveditorial/tve_main/1,1002,271\|89238\|1\|,00.html (563 words)

	Amish in the City // Silverberry (Site not responding. Last check: )
		I've been hearing a lot about the UPN reality show Amish in the City - so I set the tivo to record the next few episodes.
		The Amish are on "rumspringa" - the time period when they're allowed to go out into the world and decide if they want to live there, or join the Amish church and live there for the rest of their lives.
		The show tries to make it easier by flashing up their names and whether they are Amish or not on the screen anytime they're talking.
	www.silverberry.org /archives/2004/08/24/amish_in_the_city.php (416 words)

	Flak Magazine: Review of Amish in the City, 08.04.04
		During this time, which starts at age 16 and usually ends by 22, Amish youth are free to deviate from their community's strict rules and experience everything the so-called modern world has to offer.
		Viewers are informed that these city kids are also at crossroads in their own lives — most are trying to delay higher education or career decisions for a few months longer.
		Among the Amish, homosexuality is forbidden and ethnic diversity is nil.
	www.flakmag.com /tv/amish.html (845 words)

	deseretnews.com \| Critics blew it on 'Amish'
		"Amish In the City" is an entertaining, involving new series that doesn't in any way mock the five young Amish people or their religion.
		Then five young Amish people on rumspringa —; a time when they live in the world before deciding to commit to their church and its ultrasimple lifestyle — show up in traditional garb.
		As for what decisions are made by these people — both the Amish kids and the city kids — well, you'll just have to wait until the end of the 10-episode series.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,595079905,00.html (1040 words)

	Amish reality show not on network's fall schedule
		Amish in the City, widely criticized for what some feared would be an insulting depiction of the plain people, was not on UPN’s fall schedule when it was unveiled May 20 in Los Angeles.
		Marema said UPN was showing the same disregard for rural culture with Amish in the City, which would have taken several Amish youth and put them in a house with worldly big-city counterparts.
		Ever since plans for Amish in the City were announced Jan. 31, Bontrager has been marshaling a growing wave of opposition to the show.
	www.mennoweekly.org /MAY/05-30-04/AMISH05-30.html (850 words)

	Amish in the City kids go sailing
		AMISH IN THE CITY, AMISH ON THE SEA
		It's after returning from rumspringa, assuming they do return, that the Amish are baptized into their way of life, though doing a reality show from a house in the Hollywood Hills with a swimming pool and a bunch of jaded city kids for counterpoint is hardly the standard rumspringa experience.
		The American Sailing Association will be featured in the final episode of Amish in the City, scheduled to air on Tuesday, September 21.The UPN (channel 13) airs on Wednesdays at 8 p.m.
	www.sailmag.com /features/amishASA (784 words)

	Questions Regarding the Amish
		The Amish youth participating in the show had an education consisting of eight years of schooling in a two room Amish school house taught by teachers who were themselves eighth grade graduates.
		Sadly, the Amish youth participants are at that stage in their lives where they are debating throwing it all away and in so doing to risk losing the support of their family and friends.
		I have spoken to many Amish regarding the show (most had a basic knowledge of the TV series) and to a person, each was appalled and emotionally distressed that it was produced and broadcast nationally.
	www.holycrosslivonia.org /amish/q_and_a_no1.htm (2134 words)

	‘Amish in the City’ raises red flags for the sect - REALITY TV- msnbc.com
		“Amish in the City” gives five young adults the chance to explore the big city and discover what life is like outside their Amish communities.
		For the Amish, exposure to the sights and sounds of urban California life is mostly exhilarating to young people who have lived without electricity and other modern elements.
		Ariel sensitively pronounces herself “a sexy little Amish girl” when she and the other city kids are instructed to wear traditional Amish clothing.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/5479455 (1058 words)

	Amish In The City - Reality TV Calendar - What's On When - The authority for reality television schedules. American ...
		Are you one of the thousands of Amish In The City fans who missed the final episode when UPN moved it to Tuesday night against the finales of Big Brother and The Amazing Race?
		From The UPN Site: 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.
		Amish In The City will be recapped by RTVC Staff Writer Evan D. Baltz.
	www.realitytvcalendar.com /shows/amish.html (492 words)

	Amish in the City TV Show - Amish in the City Television Show - TV.com
		In the season finale of Amish in the City: Jonas gets his GED results, and passes it with top marks: 99% in math, 98% in writing, and 99% in reading.
		Mose: The big city life is not for him, but he probably won't go back to the Amish.
		Amish In The City was a reality show, really worth watching.
	www.tv.com /amish-in-the-city/show/28781/summary.html (909 words)

	CNN.com - New series to follow 'Amish in the City' - Jan. 19, 2004
		The UPN television network is preparing a reality series that follows Amish teenagers having their first experiences with modern conveniences and outside society, part of a religious rite of passage that tests their faith.
		Network executives are informally calling it "Amish in the City," although they said Sunday the title will likely change.
		At age 16, Amish youngsters are allowed to break free of the religion's strict code of conduct to decide whether they want to be baptized as adults.
	www.cnn.com /2004/SHOWBIZ/TV/01/19/tv.amishinthecity.ap (446 words)

	reality blurred + Amish in the City
		Amish in the City producer says controversy over the series was surprising.
		Pennsylvania station that didn't air Amish in the City changes its mind, airs the show.
		Amish in the City wraps taping; Hayden Christensen, Jack Black producing shows.
	www.realityblurred.com /realitytv/archives/amish_in_the_city (402 words)

	Variety.com - Reviews - Amish in the City
		The fear at the outset was that the Amish kids would be portrayed as total rubes, mocked for their modesty, exploited and degraded.
		The Amish kids selected for the show are all in the midst of rumspringa, a period when young adults are allowed to behave in any manner they choose -- a fling for as many years as it takes to determine if they should choose to adopt their devout lifestyle permanently.
		Between the halfwit commentary of the city kids and the "Will they or won't they go Hollywood?" question facing the Amish, there is enough entertainment value to keep viewers hooked for the run of the show.
	www.variety.com /review/VE1117924479?categoryId=32 (651 words)

	THOUGHTS ON "AMISH IN THE CITY"... WORTHY OF A SECOND SEASON
		Throughout the series, the Amish seem to have the impression that life here in the modern world is one big playtime and those that inhabit it exceedingly lazy.
		Overall, “Amish In The City” is one of the few manifestations of reality television worthy of a second season since, despite its faults, is surprisingly mild in light of the maggot and entrails-eating antics of “Fear Factor” and the trivialization of marriage and romance inherent to shows such as “The Bachelor”.
		Since none of them returned to the Amish at the end of the season finale, as part of the second season or as part of a stand alone reunion special, producers should track down these participants and update how these young people fair in the real world apart from the glitz and glamour of Hollywood.
	www.etherzone.com /2004/meek101104.shtml (539 words)

	Reality TV Rules - Amish In The City: Episode 1 7/28/04 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		AMISH IN THE CITY chronicles how relationships develop and viewpoints collide in a house shared by young people from very different cultures, while also introducing viewers to the intensely personal Amish coming-of-age experience, called rumspringa (a Pennsylvania Dutch word loosely translated as "running wild").
		During this religious rite of passage, young Amish men and women are allowed to leave their homes to explore the outside world until they decide whether or not they want to join the Amish church and be welcomed back into their families or stay in the outside world.
		From moments serious and significant to lighter and trivial, cameras catch everything as the Amish journey outside their quiet rural areas and are gradually introduced to both the delights and challenges of modern metropolitan life.
	www.tvrules.net /modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=5301 (535 words)

	Amish in the City - GameDev.Net Discussion Forums
		Basically, young Amish adults get a rite of passage called "Rumspringa" during which they can leave their community and go out into the world, and decide whether or not they want to come back and join the Amish church.
		When the show starts off and the city kids are first introduced to their Amish housemates, they immediately start laughing and making fun of them (the city kids are in their 20's, mind you).
		Later in the show there was a clash between the Amish kids and the worldly kids, because the Amish men had some trouble getting used to the fact that in the outside world, men aren't waited on by their wives and mothers and need to clean up after themselves.
	www.gamedev.net /community/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=260780&whichpage=1� (393 words)

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