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How Italy Is Adapting To The Surge Of Migrants Fleeing Conflicts
Overwhelmed by the influx of migrants and refugees from conflict in the Middle East and now Ukraine, European governments have considered barring rescue boats from using their ports. For example, during June of 2017, more than 12,000 migrants crossed the […]
Climate Change and Cultural Cooperation
Climate change is a hotly debated global topic, which is expected to impact poor and low income nations first, and will eventually affect every nation. While this issue is largely in the hands of wealthy nations and the UN, it […]
Intraregional Borderlanders: Native American CCKs
Native American populations often fly under the public eye, and issues on reservations rarely make it into mainstream U.S. news coverage. U.S. culture is always described as a melting pot, a blend and mash of the culture of immigrants and […]
Poor Nations Suffer Most at Hands of Climate Change
September of 2017 will go down in history as a horrific month of natural catastrophes. Severe rains and a small cyclone in Zimbabwe killed 117 people, China was hit by severe flooding that killed at least 144, followed by more […]
Empire of The Sun, a TCK Movie Analysis
Third-culture-kid (TCK) and cross-cultural-kid (CCK) lifestyles — and the subsequent benefits and struggles — rarely enter the media. Often, only TCKs themselves seek to tell their stories while those who have experienced a less nomadic upbringing remain unaware of this […]
SERIES, PART III OF III – Love & Ohana: The Story of an Unstoppable Cross-Cultured Family
Parts one and two of this family-based series explored the lives of Rasha Pecoraro and Yvette Gentile, the two daughters of Fauna Hodel. Hodel was born in 1951 to a prominent white family in California. Before birth, Hodel was bargained […]
SERIES, PART II OF III = Love & Ohana: The Story of an Unstoppable Cross-Cultured Family
In the previous article, Rasha Pecoraro discussed what it is like being a white Hawaiian native, and how her mother, Fauna Hodel, taught her to spread love throughout her life. Now, we feature Pecoraro’s older sister, Yvette Gentile, an internationally […]
SERIES, PART I OF III = Love & Ohana: The Story of an Unstoppable Cross-Cultured Family
There are some women in the world who just seem unstoppable. Confident, caring, passionate, vivid, creative and hardworking – these people are one in a million. Rasha Pecoraro is one of them. Pecoraro is a stunning woman with blonde hair […]