“A few weeks ago, I hit ten years of being in the US after moving back from Indonesia,” Elisabeth, a dear expat friend of mine, recently told me. Brown eyes pensive, she continued, “My time [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
When Third Culture Kids (TCKs) and expats are asked the question ‘where’s home?’ a similar answer, or lack of answer, typically follows: Silence. A noticeable gulp. A panicked sequence of “Umm…” [...]
I often feel like a foreigner in my own country. I was born in Burma and lived outside my passport country until it was time to go to college. My father worked in international agriculture. I [...]
Today’s infographic comes from Caroline Osinki and the Kwintessential Consulting Ltdteam. We live in such a flat world today. In fact it has become such a digital village that we can [...]
It’s no surprise that society has changed in today’s world. Through avenues of globalization and increased global mobility, there is a demographic of citizens who are defining their existence not [...]
