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The sharing economy is described, according to a recent report, as mainly an urban phenomenon.   The report suggests the  term “sharing economy” was first seen in the mid 2000s and was also [...]

I’ve always been everyone’s go-to translator. Back up to my first year at Stanford. Someone asked me to be their ‘Spanish buddy’. “Clara, can I do a short interview with you in Spanish? It’s for [...]

Do you have wanderlust? Do you love exploring different places or does staying in one place for a long time make you restless? Chances are that you are probably a global nomad. You probably don‘t [...]

In the first ever Blab on TCKs, I talk to fellow Nomads, TCKs, and World Citizens about what it means to be a TCK in today’s world. We talk identity, jobs, family, culture, languages and [...]

“You can always succeed as a third culture kid.” One year ago, I was a new student with a really limited English level in my current school. Although I was born in Japan, I grew up in China and [...]

What’s your TCK/Nomadic story? I moved to Bahrain, a tiny desert island in the Gulf with my parents on their first expatriate posting as a young girl in 1970. After 6 years, we relocated to [...]

I have a profound obsession with words and language. I believe words, do in fact, mean things and it is important to understand them. Sometimes, stereotypes exist because people do not understand [...]

Is it the food? The climate? The pop culture?   For me, it’s most definitely the people. As a Third Culture Kid (TCK), I’ve moved quite a lot, and when in school, I often struggled to make [...]

It was the international school life. I had friends from Malaysia, The United States, Japan, Germany, and so many other countries. They would come back after the summer and tell me about [...]

I met Elena Mosko, CEO and Founder of Globiana, for lunch in Palo Alto, the heartland of California’s booming tech industry. Russian-entrepreneur Elena and her international team are transforming [...]