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Today’s episode is with Heather Thorkleson. She has traveled to every continent on earth and spent the better part of her 20’s slowly dying in the corporate world. She eventually dropped [...]

  Like many Third Culture Kids (TCKs), Sarah (Spinella) Forcey’s eighteenth birthday preempted a transition to her home culture in the form of repatriating to the US for college. Unlike most [...]

With so much written about the challenges that come from growing up between worlds, it’s important to highlight TCK strengths too. One of the most powerful of them is “Cross-Cluster [...]

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 [...]

The term third culture kids, or TCKs, is often used to refer to children raised in a culture different from that of their parents. Part of their development includes moving between cultures from [...]

  3 Cultured Kids (3CKs) is an interview series touching upon questions related to the multi-faceted lives of Global Nomads and/or TCKs. What are some of the first things you notice when you [...]

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 [...]

As a TCK we are not only exposed to various cultures but may even adopt them or identify with them. However it is important to note that identifying with a culture does not necessarily make it [...]

“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 [...]