24 June 2008

Japenese Game Shows and The Amish

ABC is all about new shows tonight with the premieres of Wipeout, I Survived a Japanese Game Show, as well as a look into Rumspringa on Primetime!

What is Rumspringa, you ask? Well, according to Wikipedia (thanks, Wikipedia!), Rumspringa (also Rumschpringe or Rumshpringa -- derived from the "Deitsch" (Amish dialect of German) term for 'running around'. -- generally refers to a period of adolescence for members of the Amish religious denomination - a subsect of the Anabaptist Christian movement - that begins around the age of sixteen and ends when a youth chooses baptism within the Amish church or instead leaves the community. Not all Amish use this term (it does not occur in Hostetler's extended discussion of adolescence), but in sects that do Amish elders generally view this time for courtship and finding a spouse.

So, basically, how I've spent the past month.

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