cross cultural

“I’m not a TCK myself.  I grew in the same house all my life,” as Lillian Small clarified. Even so, the life of Lillian Small is filled with diversity. Not as a traditional Third Culture Kid (TCK), her diverse experiences were […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

In the wake of continued police violence, racial and cultural discrimination and acts of hatred in the United States, schools across the country have sought to create a more inclusive culture on campus. Colorado State University prides itself on its […]

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 […]