cross cultural

While Rachell Hofstetter, better known as Valkyrae, may have over 14 million followers watching her stream online, when she was growing up as a Cross Cultural Kid in a small town in Washington State, U.S.A., like many CCKs she spent her youth trying to figure out exactly who she was.

After receiving a Stage 4 cancer diagnosis and a prognosis measured in months, third culture adult Emma Victoria Johnson traveled from Australia to Oasis of Hope in Tijuana, Mexico. Her ongoing survival story explores cultural adaptability, medical tourism and the courage to seek another cancer treatment option across borders.

The FIFA World Cup — men’s and women’s — joins the Olympic Games as arguably the best examples of the positive sides of nationalism and patriotism.

When two dual-national Spanish citizens face off against each other in the final game of the 2026 FIFA Men’s World Cup, it is the culmination of a narrative that has permeated the entire tournament — a new phenomenon that is not going away, a story of players representing nations that may or may not have been the country of their birth.

Born in Argentina to Korean parents and smuggled by a coyote across the U.S.-Mexico border when he was 3 years old, Jonnie Park grew up in L.A. amid cultural dislocation, his father’s violent alcoholism and the turbulent protests and riots of the early 1990s.

Chris Armas, the head coach of the Kansas City Current in the U.S. National Women’s Soccer League, had a distinctly cross-cultural upbringing.

In his upcoming memoir “Passport To Freedom: From Tehran To Triumph,” U.S.-born Adult Cross-Cultural Kid Dr. Nizam Missaghi shares his harrowing escape from Iran as a child.

Amy Wang, Chinese Australian director of the upcoming movie “Slanted,” has always been aware that she looked different.