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2008-04-04 21:19:04
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Have you ever done an action in your home country, that was normal in your “foreign” country but utterly weird in your passport country?
Me its being too generous. I give books and money to strangers or people I barley know. Over in the middle east it is normal but the people i was generous to were completley confused!
Has growing up a TCK made your more fashion conscious?
Slightly random but I noticed TCK’s like me who have lived in the Middle East tend to be more fashionable than a lot of people in our “home country”. Is the case with anyone else?
Get True Life to make an episode about TCK’s!
Ok I know its MTV, but people watch that show religiously and makes them aware of different people around them. I think if non TCK’s were able to watch what TCK’s were going through they would try to maintain a certain understanding of TCK’s. Anybody in?
Do you ever feel disconnected with your “peers” in your “passport” country after a TCK life? Especially as a teen?
Ever since I’ve moved to the states I have had a hard time connecting with young adults’ my age. I feel completely different form them. It seems life to them is so one dimensional, how they act, talk and walk is so different than what I grew up with. It’s like I’m a different creature from them. It’s so weird because growing up I had to keep my eyes open to every little detail. The culture around me, not doing anything to get my visa revoked and worrying were Ill move next and knowing I wasn’t permanent and invincible. But over here, the kids here are in a head space that I can’t relate to. Has anybody else had this experience?
P.S This is coming from an 19 year old.
Hi from the new guy
Hi my name is Omar. I have lived in Qatar (a small country by Dubai but nowhere near as fun) for the past 13 years. It was an intresting 13 years at that, tons of diffrente cultures and experinces, not just in qatar but other places around the world. I have travled to: Syria,Jordan,Turky,Saudi,Lebanon,Malaysia,Moroco,Egypt,Dubai,Singapore and other countires that I cant remember! It was a wonderfull experince but with a downside. A lack of belonging. Living as an expat nothing is permanent such your friends, teams, schools. Its like one day you meet someone at an event and both of you want to meet up in 4 days, but the day before you get that call that he is leaving back to the states the next day. With these things happening you began to develop a sense that even the most smallest things are not permanent. This is the character of those called Third Culutre Kids. Those who have lived in countries that are nither of thier parents. Recently I have moved back to the USA and least to say things have been diffrent. It feels wierd to be surrounded by a non cosmopolitan world like in Qatar, where in the vegetable store you hear up to 10 diffrent launguages! Theres this constant grinding of bieng diffrent form other people. I look the same and seem to act the same as them, but I dont think the same as them. Politicly, culturly it seems i have a deeper insight then the others. Its also strange to be in an environment that seems to take everything for granted. Home, work, a permanant country, things that I will never mentaly have. Also I grew up half american and half arab and part christian, jewish and musilm! Once in awhile I’ll meet someone who is the same postion as me. But these relationships are very short lived as the are constanly traveling the world. And in some weird way im fine with that. Its like TCK’s hav found a way to superfucially bare thier souls so as to seiz the moment and not break down emotionaly in that never ending pattern of lost loves and friends. Well adjusting to the USA has been a little hard, but I’ll pull through! Well masalama (peace be with you in arabic) my friends.
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