cross cultural

Eman Esfandi came very close to abandoning his acting career, and part of the reason for getting that close was due to casting agents not being able to figure out “what” he was.

For Google DeepMind Co-Founder and CEO — and Adult Cross Cultural Kid — Demis Hassabis, the fusion of technology and art is a lifelong pursuit.

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.