Third Culture Kid (TCK)

Lived outside your passport country growing up? You’re a Third Culture Kid (TCK), and it’s a must that you read Third Culture Kids: Growing Up Among Worlds, a fantastic book written by Ruth Van Reken and David Pollock.  They argue that […]

“So if you’re from Africa, why are you white?” This is one of the most frequently quoted lines from the cultural movie phenomenon, Mean Girls, which traces the transition of Cady Heron, African sweetheart, to an American high school “mean […]

As long as we can remember, women have been held to what some consider impossible beauty standards.  Media helps ingrain those standards through magazine photos, videos and overall expectations that eventually lead to the “squeakiest wheel” eventually morphing all of […]

This infographic shows the distribution of the top 10 languages spoken around the globe. Mandarin Chinese is spoken by the greatest amount of people around the world, nearing 1 billion. It is interesting to note that two of the top […]

This infographic offers a bit of insight into the life of a Third Culture Kid. The film, The Road Home, tells the story of Pico, a global nomad from Britain who is living in India. His feelings of displacement surround […]

This is my dream.  To inhabit or restore a historic building with a lot of character. To take a building that has seen many, and bring in barreling into the 21st Century by having different Cultures, People, Food, Art and […]

We’ve all seen the futuristic movies where people wake up in one country, commute across the world in the blink of an eye, meet up with friends for drinks on another continent, and zip back home for dinner. And I […]

Cultural mobility was all over the 2015 Oscars, with more than  100 countries in 24 time zones watching around the globe.    Cheryl Boone Issacs, President Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), known for its annual Academy Awards (Oscars), […]