“No generation before now has had so many of its members simultaneously living in, between, and among countless cultural worlds as is happening today.” Lois Bushon…
What is a third culture kid (TCK)? basically every TCK has a worldly view of life and enjoys unique life experiences . But is there a flipside?
“A Third Culture Kid is a person who has spent a significant part of his or her developmental years outside their parents’ culture." There...
I was talking to the principal of an international school recently, and he had never heard the term “Third Culture Kid” (TCK). This really surprised me. By now, after more than three decades of res…
A third culture kid is someone who was raised in a culture that is different from their parents culture, or the culture of the country on their passport.
Unstable, uneasy, uncomfortable. That's how 25-year-old TCK artist Grace Kim describes her installation on Third Culture Kid identity.
My wife and I have recently taken the crazy step of leaving the familiar and moving to Italy with our two sons. There are many reasons why we decided to make this jump, but one of the most important to me is that I want our kids to share some of the experiences I was so fortunate to have as a “third-culture kid.”
The term "third culture kid" has more to do with the exposure of various cultures. Keep reading for a few experiences of my own as a third culture kid.
Third culture kid (TCK) or third culture individual (TCI) is a child raised in a culture other than their parents and here are its benefits while travelling
In my fourth sublet in Berlin in the past eight months, I am growing accustomed to another person’s things around me, to her life quietly insinuating itself into my own.
I haven’t written anything for a while on my childhood in the Middle East, though for numerous reasons as of late it’s been on my mind a lot. Sometimes I wonder how my life would hav…
Third-culture kids, or those whose culture is different from their parents, face unique challenges growing up and in going to college.
Third culture kids are kids who grew up cultures different than the ones their parents grew up in. A grown up Third Culture Kid offers tips to current ones.
It surprises me even now, even still, how children who grow up in a culture outside their parents’ passport cultures somehow, instinctively, just know one another. They flock together, bound by the shared experience of being slightly displaced.
Twenty-six years after he started country-hopping, one writer reflects on a childhood spent in transit.
Third Culture Kid or Cross-Cultural Kid: what is the difference? Who are they?
The final edit of the TCK Life Logo.
“Where are you from?” sounds like an easy question to answer for most children. However, it can actually be a struggle for what we call “Third Culture Kids” (TCK).
In this episode I share how I gained my global identity and learned to use it to my advantage. I essentially share my biography and you will learn how I used sports to make friends Found myself in the midst of all my moves and what is to come in the coming episodes. Enjoy the […]
1. The question, “Where are you from?” is the most annoying, nerve-wrecking, anxiety-inducing question someone can ask you.
Do you feel stranger in your own home? Explore the challenges and duality of the Third Culture Kids (TCK) through this essay by emerging graphic designers Izza Alyssa and Shima Aeinehdar.
As a ‘third culture kid,’ you live a particularly interesting life growing up abroad in a culture different to that of your parents.
True stories and activities to help third culture kids during transition Maryam Afnan Ahmad, Cherie Emigh, Ulrike Gemmer...
You become accustomed to the culture that should be yours but you miss the ones you adopted along the way. You look like you belong but you think very differently — you’re a hidden immigrant.
Today’s post is by Joann Pittman. Joann is a childhood friend who I’ve reconnected with in the past year. As a woman who has lived her entire life cross-culturally, Joanne is gifted at …
A Cross-Cultural Kid (CCK) is someone who has been significantly influenced by two or more cultural environments during their developmental years.
Originally published on Djibouti Jones You can always come home. Home might not be this house but home is always this family. Come rejoicing, come weeping, come whole, come broken, come lonely, com…
Third Culture Kids Documentary students from ACS Hillingdon International School camera and research by Lauren Seaberg edited by Jennifer Margain Salvador
