cross cultural

While Rachell Hofstetter, better known as Valkyrae, may have over 14 million followers watching her stream online, when she was growing up as a Cross Cultural Kid in a small town in Washington State, U.S.A., like many CCKs she spent her youth trying to figure out exactly who she was.

The world has spent your whole life asking where you’re from. We’re more interested in asking who you’ve become. Maybe you’ve lived in three countries. Maybe your family tree stretches across continents. Maybe you grew up translating for your parents. […]

When two dual-national Spanish citizens face off against each other in the final game of the 2026 FIFA Men’s World Cup, it is the culmination of a narrative that has permeated the entire tournament — a new phenomenon that is not going away, a story of players representing nations that may or may not have been the country of their birth.

Ireland is something of a contradiction in many respects.

“The Four Seasons of Rascal: The Dog From Harbin” by Todd Cornell is a story of love and loss between a man and his dog. It is also a tale steeped in cross-cultural understanding, shaped by years lived between China and the United States.

European basketball is unlike anything most U.S. fans have experienced, where fans become just as much a part of the game as the players themselves.

Born in Argentina to Korean parents and smuggled by a coyote across the U.S.-Mexico border when he was 3 years old, Jonnie Park grew up in L.A. amid cultural dislocation, his father’s violent alcoholism and the turbulent protests and riots of the early 1990s.

Chris Armas, the head coach of the Kansas City Current in the U.S. National Women’s Soccer League, had a distinctly cross-cultural upbringing.