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Chrystal McDonald On Viewing The World Through A Different Lens
Living in one country where things go a certain way and transitioning to a place where things go a different way is always a difficult thing to do. Life changes entirely and for some, that can be a hard adversity […]
How Barack Obama and His Life as a TCK Assisted His Presidency
We all know the United States’ 45th president, Barack Obama. However, a lot of people are unaware of his lifestyle as a boy. He spent his early childhood moving from country to country with his mother and never fully settled […]
How Mo Farah’s Life as a TCK Led Him to Flourish in the Olympics
Background Thirty-eight-year-old Mo Farah was born in Somalia, where he lived for the first eight years of his life. He subsequently moved to Great Britain where he would grow up for the remainder of his adolescent life. The move to […]
TCK: There is no Inevitability in Leadership
Recently I’ve been studying up on leadership in on of my psychology classes and I can’t help but to think how many times I’ve heard that TCKs often become equipped with incredible leadership skills. Skills such as a deep empathy […]
Code Switch or Chameleon? Communication Collides
Code switching is most often used in language and multilingual conversations. But I have found that while I do code switch in conversations with different accents and speech tactics, I also use code switching as a key communication tool between […]
International Marriage Equality Part II
In the first part of this three part series I discussed the general state of marriage equality around the world. For this article I have interviewed Elsa Bourdon, an ATCK living in Australia whose passport country is France. Elsa has […]
Culture Shock: The Land of Plenty, or The Land of Grossly Too Much?
Culture shock sucks, especially because you never see it coming. There are things that you expect, like not knowing the latest music fad or who’s dating whom in Hollywood. But culture shock isn’t about petty ignorance of pop culture; it’s […]
Pets are TCKs Too
I never realized it before, but last week when my family dog Ringgit died, I realized that she was as much of a TCK as I am. She was born in Australia and shipped to us in Malaysia. She moved […]