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Can Fraternities Help Black Athletes Navigate Cultural Challenges?
Black Greek Life Organizations (BGLO) have continued to provide opportunities for Black students but are they submitting to white social norms in today’s society? Emerald Green is the Assistant Director for the Black/African American Cultural Center at Colorado State University […]
TCK Musicians in the Spotlight
There are Third Culture Kids (TCKs) today who have made it big in the music industry, and three of those musicians are Wiz Khalifa, Cristina Aguilera and Jason Wade from Lifehouse. Wiz Khalifa A U.S. rapper born in 1987 with […]
Hidden Diversity
In today’s society, there are fewer children growing up in traditional monocultural environments. This offers the idea that new opportunities from this new way of living can help our globalizing world expand and diversify people’s worldviews. Individuals who find themselves […]
The Famous TCK President
It is Obama himself who contributed to the popularity and spread of TCKs. According to David C. Pollock, developer of the TCK Profile, founder, Interaction, Inc., co-author Third Culture Kids: The Experience of Growing Up Among Worlds, “A Third Culture […]
Finding the ‘Joyride’ in Journeys of Change: An Interview with TCK Filmmaker Sebastien Tobler — Part 1 of 2
If there was ever a perfect way to portray the universal experiences of attachment and letting go, a Third Culture filmmaker would know how to do it. By inviting his audience to step into brief moments around moving day, filmmaker Sebastien […]
‘In-Between Club’ Podcast: Yasuha Miura and Tomoka Mori — Part 1 of 3
(In part 1, we find out about the ‘In-Between Club‘ podcast and how it came to be from its co-hosts, Yasuha Miura and Tomoka Mori.) Identity and roots of the ‘In-between Club‘ Growing up as TCKs/CCKs, many of us struggle […]
Sometimes, A TCK’s Identity Can Be Difficult To Understand
Rahul Gandotra, director of the British Independent Film Award-nominated short film “The Road Home,” guides us on an amazing journey about Pico, a distraught British nine-year-old, who is having an identity crisis. Pico, like most Third Culture Kids, is having […]
Cultural Mobility in the Film ‘Brooklyn’
The film Brooklyn, directed by John Crowley, is a story rich in cultural fluidity. Set in Brooklyn, New York in the mid 1950s, Brooklyn follows the life of Eilis Lacey, a young woman from Enniscorthy, Ireland, and her experiences in both America and Ireland.