3 Cultured Kids (3CKs) is an interview series touching upon questions related to the multi-faceted lives of Global Nomads and/or TCKs. What recent leadership positions have you held? Michino: The [...]
Like many Third Culture Kids (TCKs), Sarah (Spinella) Forcey’s eighteenth birthday preempted a transition to her home culture in the form of repatriating to the US for college. Unlike most [...]
With so much written about the challenges that come from growing up between worlds, it’s important to highlight TCK strengths too. One of the most powerful of them is “Cross-Cluster [...]
I’ve always been everyone’s go-to translator. Back up to my first year at Stanford. Someone asked me to be their ‘Spanish buddy’. “Clara, can I do a short interview with you in Spanish? It’s for [...]
Are you bilingual, multilingual, interested in learning other languages or someone that sort of speaks multiple languages? Then you’ll want to listen to this. We discuss how language shapes [...]
Hey third culture kids, I know you might have or still experience the following set of emotions. Identity crisis, alienation and loneliness But did you know that you have so many advantages as [...]
(Photo by ziora.de) ‘…oh, so do you play ‘Indian’ music’ ? ‘…hey, was wondering if you could play some tabla for me..or sitar..’ ‘..I really dig the [...]
I thought that I was done with first days of school when I left classroom teaching. This was not the case, though, and this past August, my alarm once again shattered into my dreams…but this time [...]
Ask adult TCKs about the most challenging transition of their lives, and they’ll most likely say, “College” or “University,” terms I’ll use interchangeably here. It’s not surprising, really. [...]
In the first ever Blab on TCKs, I talk to fellow Nomads, TCKs, and World Citizens about what it means to be a TCK in today’s world. We talk identity, jobs, family, culture, languages and [...]