cross culture
JUXTAPOSITION PHOTO SERIES- Part 1 of 3: Hidden Diversity and Perception, Interview with Chumba Limo
This is a street cat in Shanghai; her name is Mimi. I’ve been feeding her for more than seven years before I studied abroad. When I was 13 years old, my family moved to a new house. I saw a […]
Amanda Bates: A TCK experience that inspired a career
Amanda Bates reminisces the days she spent as an adolescent in the tropical country of Cameroon, Africa. She remembers spending time with her friends from the international school she went to, and she misses the undivided attention that made conversations with […]
Following the Culturally Mobile: Florence Chabert d’Hieres
Florence Chabert d’Hieres is a woman with quite a story to tell – and one she is managing to live through the support of her family while following her passion. In an exclusive interview, Florence shares some of her experiences and […]
Learning a New Language is Vital to Living a Global Lifestyle
With almost 200 countries on Earth, it’s hard to imagine just how many languages are spoken worldwide. Several people believe English is the language that dominates. However, according to Ethnologue, English is not the most commonly spoken language. English ranks […]
Ruth Van Reken: The Power of Passion
Global diversity and all its surrounding divisions, classifications, misconceptions, struggles, ideas and linking factors have never been more complicated to define. However, Ruth Van Reken, co-founder of Families in Global Transition (FIGT) and co-author of “Third Culture Kids: Growing Up […]
Love Across Cultures: A Moroccan TCA Story
TCK children often follow in the wake of their parent’s career, experiencing and living in new cultures as their parent’s job demands. This is not so with Amanda Ponzio-Mouttaki’s children. Mouttaki is a curious mom whose love of travel and […]
The Impact of Repealing Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) in the United States
Since the inauguration of Donald Trump in November 2016, immigrants and refugees in the United States have been treated significantly different. Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) is a U.S. immigration policy created by former president Barack Obama that, despite their […]
Paint It Red – A Film Fighting for Chinatown
The Vancouver Asian Film Festival (VAFF) is an annual film festival held in Vancouver for about four or five days in November every year since 1996. It is a nonprofit organization that offers a platform for independent North American Asian […]