'SPIT: A Life in Battles' Interior Cover Art (Image credit: Third State Books)

For Adult Cross-Cultural Kid Jonnie Park, ‘Creators Shouldn’t Be Scared To Be Specific When Telling Their Stories’

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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.

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How Chris Armas’ Boricua Upbringing Helped Him Become A Better Soccer Coach

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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.

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'Passport to Freedom' by Nizam Missaghi

‘Passport To Freedom’ — A Memoir By Adult Cross-Cultural Kid Dr. Nizam Missaghi

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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.

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‘Slanted’ Director Amy Wang On Becoming More Comfortable In Her Own Skin

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

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13 European Countries Where Your Ancestry Could Unlock an EU Passport

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A new report from the editors at InternationalLiving.com identifies 13 European countries where people living in the Western Hemisphere may already qualify for EU citizenship through documented family lineage, with no investment required.

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Lucy Liu Channels Her CCK Experience Into ‘Rosemead’ Movie

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For Adult Cross-Cultural Kid and actor Lucy Liu, being the child of immigrants meant that one language was spoken at home while another was spoken outside the home.

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'The Time is Always Now' Exhibit at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (Photo by Deneen L. Garrett)

Reframing the Black Figure Through Cultural Fluidity: ‘The Time is Always Now’

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In “The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure,” Adult Third Culture Kid curator Ekow Eshun assembled a collective of contemporary Black artists whose works assert presence, identity and sovereignty.

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Adult Cross-Cultural Kid Pauline Yeghnazar PEck On Language And Religion (Part 3 of 3)

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When Pauline Yeghnzazar Peck was growing up in both Iran and the United States, the language spoken at home would switch from Farsi to English to Armenian

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