Third Culture Kid (TCK)
VIDEO: Part II: What does community mean to you?
In this world, these are an endless amount of ways to make connections. In your surroundings, you have the ability to create a community around you. This can be whatever you need it to be, a group of friends, a […]
Families in Global Transition (FIGT)’s Exciting 20th anniversary conference Keynote Lineup
Top experts and researchers in the globally mobile community will be headlining this year’s Families in Global Transition Conference to be held March 8-10, 2018 at the World Trade Center in The Hague, the Netherlands. The three prominent keynote speakers […]
TCK Adele Johnson’s Cross-Cultural Adventure
In a three-part series of interviews with third-culture kids (TCKs) and cross-culture kids (CCKs), we will learn about the upbringing of TCKs, making a life after many cultural experiences and raising of mixed-race children. In part one of our series, […]
Kahlea Khabir’s cultural fluidity: A Journey Pending Destination
“Who am I? I identify as black, coming from a multicultural family. Blackness is the umbrella that captures us all, paying all homage to our African ancestry. Nothing was ever conventional or traditional for me growing up. At a young […]
Empire of The Sun, a TCK Movie Analysis
Third-culture-kid (TCK) and cross-cultural-kid (CCK) lifestyles — and the subsequent benefits and struggles — rarely enter the media. Often, only TCKs themselves seek to tell their stories while those who have experienced a less nomadic upbringing remain unaware of this […]
Introducing TCK Myra Dumapias
Second-generation third-culture-kid (TCK) Myra Dumapias freezes up a bit when asked the basic question: “Where are you from?” What is she supposed to tell people? Though she now lives in San Antonio, Texas, should she list off every country she’s lived in to every […]
Series – Part 3 of 3: Culture Without Boundaries
Throughout this three part series, you will see Pamela Blattner’s journey from ignoring her Peruvian heritage to becoming confident as a blended Latina. First, in part one, you explored her upbringing where she tried to fit into the molds of […]
Being a TCK: a chance to see the diversely beautiful world- Dahlia Ambrosine’s Life Journey
Dahlia Ambrosine, an insightful and beautiful woman whose life is full of adventure. Although Ambronsine was born in Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies, she identified not only Trinidad and Tobago is her home, but also Colorado. She calls Trinidad home because […]