Hi, I am new to TCK. I was recommended by one of my professors to check out the material on TCK.

I personally grew up here in the U.S. I consider myself to be African American, although I am of mixed blood African American Native American and Caucasian. My growing up, I grew up in white middle class neighborhoods in various states and cities here in the U.S., I attended a new schools every year up until my 3rd year of high school. During college, I traveled abundantly and learnt languages and love it!

But during my growing up years, I did not identify with one particular group or race. My friends, were (and still are) from different places in Asia, Hispanic, Caucasian, Pacific Islanders, African, and African Americans. I really believe I have friends in every country. I grew up taking on their cultures, their expressions, their languages, their way of being etc…and now as an adult I never really formed my own identity.

I identify with so many cultures, that have derived from my friendships and my travels, that I do not know where I belong in this world of cultural identity. I have no idea. I feel and believe as if I am my own person, that I have established my own unique cultural identity, and I like it, I love it. But yet, at times, when I look around me and see my friends and their families, I know they have something specific in which they can identify with, and when I see that I do get sad and/or wish I had that. They have a place where they belong in their identity, and yet I feel as if I do not have that.

So that is where my professor came in, I had written a paper on my own cultural identity, and she thought it recommended that I look into TCK’s. So I guess my question is, although I grew here in the U.S. could the TCK “label” apply to me?

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