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Wednesday, May 21 2025

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“I’m on a BIG mission to help military, expatriate and other globally mobile people around the world have easy access to experts and resources to help transition from feelings of loss & overwhelm to flourishing in the life they dream of and deserve!

Dr. Paulette Bethel, CMC
Danau TanuWhy Are All the “Korean” Kids
Sitting Together in the Cafeteria

 

Hear “outside the box” thinking on her emergent TCK/Cross-Cutural Kids paradigm
Danau Tanu
Adjunct Lecturer, University of Western Australia
“Doctor-in-Waiting”
Cross-Cultural Kid/Third Culture Kid
 
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Danau Tanu is a TCK/CCK and a “doctor-in-waiting.” She passed her doctoral dissertation on Third Culture Kids through the University of Western Australia where she also works as an adjunct lecturer. She was born in Canada to a Chinese Indonesian father and Japanese mother, and speaks four languages. The work of Brice Royer (TCKid.com), Ruth Van Reken and David Pollock changed her life. Danau has published a chapter in Writing Out of Limbo: International Childhoods, Global Nomads and Third Culture Kids, an edited collection by Gene H. Bell-Villada and Nina Sichel.

Danau  discussed:

  • The diversity of the Third Culture Kid experience.
  •  Her qualitative research study – design and outcomes
  •  Real-life examples and findings from her research related to “self-segregation” at international  schools
  •  Internalized racism and why it matters
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About Author

Paulette Bethel, PhD

A native of culturally rich New Orleans, Dr. Paulette Bethel brings the essence of that heritage into everything she creates. She is a storycatcher, speaker and identity reinvention guide whose work lives at the intersection of culture, transition, and personal truth.

A retired U.S. Air Force officer, former therapist, and lifelong cross-cultural navigator, she is also a proud Air Force spouse and the mother of adult Third Culture Kids — experiences that deeply shape her understanding of identity, belonging and change.

Through her "Bella’s Front Porch" column and her platform, Step Beyond Coaching & Consulting, Bethel invites culturally fluid individuals — of all backgrounds, ages and identities — to reflect on who they are becoming. Her work affirms that identity is not a destination, but a dynamic, unfolding story — and we all deserve the space to live ours, out loud and in full.

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