XOTV VIDEO: When Growing Up Everywhere Can Ground You Locally

Global Citizens grounded by local engagement

This is an inaugural broadcast of this panel discussion on “global patriotism” hosted by TCKidNOW.

Click the photo to above to watch the video presentation about growing up everywhere. Or listen ‘podcast-style’ to this engaging dialogue about how they participated in local civic engagement.

OVERVIEW –

Turkish-British novelist and commentator Elif Shafak challenges the notion that belonging everywhere can mean being a citizen of nowhere by validating a world citizenship. Having simultaneous “multiple belongings,” is a patriotism she describes being more valuable than nationalistic fervor.

This discussion reveals how world citizens practice local civic engagement. It also shows loyalty to a country, demonstrating what patriotism for the world can look like.

WATCH OR LISTEN

Watch or listen “podcast-style” to this engaging dialogue with host Myra Dumapias with these global souls:

Virupaksh Agrawal,
Precious Brooks
and Vahid Mockon

Our interviewees talk about growing up everywhere. And how they participated in local civic engagement. This panel discussion took place on December 5, 2020. It occurred after the United States witnessed the successful election of a Vice President. U.S. Vice President Kamal Harris has global, cross-cultural roots. She is the

first woman,
first African American,
first Black woman
first South Asian
and first Asian American

To be elected to such a high office in the U.S.

Click Here to watch the presentation, the intro is audio only and then the video begins.

TCKidNOW is a US-based non-profit organization that serves adult Third Culture Kids (TCKs) or individuals who spent their developmental years growing up in different countries other than their parents’ or their birth country. TCKs (the “Kids” referring to the stage in life spent living transnationally) commonly identify with others who grew up geographically and/or culturally rootless, such as military brats, missionary kids, diplomatic brats, international assistance/development program kids and corporate kids.

Find TCKidNOW on Facebook and Instagram @TCKidNOW.

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Myra Dumapias

Third Culture Kid Expert Myra Dumapias, currently based in San Antonio is the Chief Executive Officer of TCKidNOW (Third Culture Kids Navigating Our Worlds)*, formerly TCKid. TCKid was featured on the BBC, ABC News, The Telegraph, the U.S. Department of Defense and Education Week, and helped thousands of TCKs discover their TCK identity and find a sense of belonging long before there was other mention of the term on social media. Dumapias transformed TCKid into a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that provides trauma-informed educational outreach about the lifetime impact of a transnational upbringing. While acknowledging the role healing plays in helping TCKs recognize and develop their skills, TCKidNOW fosters connections that not only help TCKs find a sense of belonging, but give back to the world they grew up in. Myra’s writing has been published in disOrient Journalzine and other anthologies and chapbooks such as “Freeze Dried” and the “Our Path to Follow” series, as well as Among Worlds, Expat Philippines and other magazines. She has read in various festivals, universities, bookstores and other venues and curated poetry and prose readings in Los Angeles. Myra has a Bachelor’s in English and World Literature and a Master’s in Social Work.