“I’m A Third Culture Kid, Are You?”
Most of those who read my blog are not Kuwaiti, and it is for you that I am writing this post. So many of you who read me are also “Third Culture Kids.” My blogging friend Amer just wrote a post by the above title, and whoa! The responses will blow you away! Please go to I am a Third Culture Kid, Are You? and check in with your story – where you came from and where you are today.
And how being a third culture kid has affected your life. This is one of the best blog entries I have read.
The book from which the term Third Culture Kids comes from is mentioned in an earlier blog entry of mine, Chicken Nuggets and Big Macs and is by David C. Pollock and Ruth E. Van Reken. You can find it at Amazon.com. If you are a third culture kid, you might want to buy two or three – you will keep giving them away. The book is that good.
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we all have an element of dissociation these days – but this is a more extreme variant. It’s the move to a truly global world, people shift in and out of countries overnight, and work opportunities abound.
With great freedom comes great responsibilities.
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You have an interesting blog, ggwfung, and are you also a TCK?
Well I’m 26; 13 years between California and The UK; 13 years in Kuwait and still want to move back to the UK!
I entered before finishing π
Does that make me a TCK?
Oh True Faith, solidly in the TCK block!
TCK rock π
i’m a tck too!! i don’t feel there’s anything wrong with it. though people say that it’s weird to have so many homes π
I can’t claim that I’m part of the “Third Culture Kid” club. I’ve moved from coast to coast in the United States a few times and have visited other countries, but I can’t say that I have actually lived outside of the U.S.
Maybe I’m more of a 2 1/2 culture kid.
Ananyah – Welcome! And yep, we rule!
MishMisha – Nothing wrong with TCK at all, except a little wierdness now and then. Especially with the dreaded question: Where are you from?
College Kid – Coast to coast in the US is definitely shifting cultures! But I love your “2 1/2 CK”. It’s the universal citizen and universal alien-ness of our lives that make us TCK. And we are legion.
Thanks for linking to Amer’s post. Definitely one of the best posts I’ve read so far.
Nice blog you have here π
I’m not a third culture kid – but I am a third culture adult!
Kinan – Welcome, and thanks. I think Amer is a GREAT blogger.
Little Diamond – π That you are, for sure.
I’m a TCK+MK:) born and raised in Cameroon, Africa! TCKs do rock!
borntwice – Welcome! I hope you also visited Amer’s blog and checked in there.
MK? Minister’s kid? (I thought that was PK?) Mixed kid? I haven’t heard MK before.