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Immigrants in the U.S.: A Brief Overview
According to a recent report from the U.S. Congressional Budget Office, the total number of immigrants — legal and illegal — living in the United States in 2021 was 45 million.
Storytelling and Culture – Angela Flores On The Power to Remember
Storytelling is a vital part of the human experience. Stories give us the power to connect with people we have never met. It gives us the chance to understand the similarities and differences of our experiences within different cultures – […]
Cultural Differences: Making Room in Your Heart for a Third Culture Adult (Part 3 of 3)
(This post is dedicated to my mother and the third in a series about Third Culture Kids and Third Culture Adults. Read the previous articles here and here.) “Where are you from” is a question some of us can answer […]
The Natural World: Our Ever-Present Home – Part 3 of 3
In Part 1 of this series, we covered climate refugees. In Part 2, we covered Military B.R.A.T.s and nature. In this final part, we hear from Bianca Acosta, an immigrant who through the natural world, reconnected and found her way […]
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 […]
Keeping Up with TCKs and Immigrant Kids — PART 3 OF 3: Daniella Nietzen
As we reflect on the last two articles within this series about Madi Soler and her life as a Third Culture Kid (TCK) and Susan Hsin and her life as an immigrant kid, we can begin to understand a lot […]
Celebrity Immigrant from a Persecuted Past: Mila Kunis
Kunis’ background You know her from “That 70’s Show,” “Black Swan” and “Friends with Benefits.” But Mila Kunis’ road to stardom was a rough one. She was born the daughter of Jewish parents in the Ukranian city of Chernivtsti in […]
Keeping Up With TCKs and Immigrant Kids – PART 2 OF 3: Susan Hsin
Looking back at part 1 of this series, we can see how Madi Soler’s life as a Domestic Third Culture Kid within different states in the United States affected her as a whole. As we move forward, we’re going to […]