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Comment on The white lies TCKs tell by James H.

James H. — Sun, 12 May 2013 11:38:23 +0000

In my early twenties, a friend and I were traveling in Ireland, and a girl at a hostel asked, “Where are you from?” I told my easy white lie- “I was born in Florida.” She looked me in the eye and asked again, “Where are you from?” I told the next simple white lie, and she kept repeating the question until my entire, complex heritage was teased out. It was one of those satisfying moments when somebody actually *wants* an honest answer to the question, and of course the girl was a TCK herself.

Comment on Part 1: TCK goes to college by Sama I.

Sama I. — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 00:57:53 +0000

Oh my gosh… I’m a TCK and I go to UF too!!

Comment on How does a TCK define “home?” by A Though to Start Your Week // Home |

A Though to Start Your Week // Home | — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 14:42:52 +0000

[...] -Anne Konig, “How Does a TCK Define Home?“ [...]

Comment on Random Things To Know If You’re Moving to the U.S. For College by Sophia S.

Sophia S. — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 18:06:47 +0000

Gotta tip the waitresses.
No jaywalking. (thats only allowed in China)

Comment on Third Culture Kids by Home… | alison ralph

Home… | alison ralph — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 14:59:59 +0000

[...] question dreaded by each and every TCK I know. Home? Where’s [...]

Comment on TCK Diaries: My High School Reunion by Betty Chen

Betty Chen — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 21:00:00 +0000

Hi Sophia! I didn’t actually live in Taiwan very long, and didn’t attend any schools while I was there!

Comment on Third Culture Kids by Quaker ‘Nations’ and Third-Culture Kids | a closeted radical

Quaker ‘Nations’ and Third-Culture Kids | a closeted radical — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 18:07:50 +0000

[...] I thought that I was alone in this feeling until I came across a term called the ‘third-culture kid‘. The term was initially created to make sense of the phenomenon of kids who are raised in [...]

Comment on Change Has Come: Watching Egypt as a Third Culture Kid by Social commentary as a lifelong insider-outsider | Tim Høiland

Social commentary as a lifelong insider-outsider | Tim Høiland — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 17:27:30 +0000

[...] several formative years living in Cairo. Now back in Texas, where he spent early childhood, he watches the news of protests in Egypt with a nuanced perspective rooted in the paradoxical experience of being neither insider nor outsider, yet somehow being both. [...]

Comment on Third Culture Kids by Multiculturalism: A Myth Like a Unicorn | tinavivre

Multiculturalism: A Myth Like a Unicorn | tinavivre — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 08:45:36 +0000

[...] LOVE being a Third Culture Kid. I love how as a result of my experience, I get antsy when I know I’ve been in a place for a [...]

Comment on Third Culture Kids by Third Culture Kid « So You Think You Can Think

Third Culture Kid « So You Think You Can Think — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 23:07:51 +0000

[...] third culture kid(TCK). I have never heard that word before. Intrigued, I read more about it, on a post at Denizen. As described there; Formally defined, TCKs are people who have spent a portion of their [...]