OK, this could be really interesting. A reality TV show featuring Amish teens on the prowl, off the rez. They'll be making sure they really want to commit to the Amish way of life.

Any suggestions about where they might go to experience the essence of Western Civ, U.S. style?

Now that I think of it, I remember seeing groups of Amish folk at The Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago in the 70s, when I worked there high-school summers as a guide-lecturer. And you do see Amish groups navigating cities, occasionally.

I respect their willingness to go outside their comfort zone, and draw what they can from another world (and it IS another world, altogether). Perhaps we can all learn from that.

Some Amish burghers have gone too far, however (for Amish people, that is), getting heavily into modern ways, money and limousines. This according to a helluva Wall Street Journal article a year or two ago, impeccably researched and sourced, like so much of their reportage. I'll see if I can dig it up and post it here later.

Posted by Matt Rosenberg at February 1, 2004 04:55 PM

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