Hey

The link for the Australian link is broken. I tried googleing the article but i couldn't find it. Could you please link it again?

Merci!

So does the John Kerry one. Sorry to be a bother, i just really want to read them. :-)

The TIME article , Rooted to Nowhere, is pretty good. It's not too long so I can keep my focus on it hahahhaha.

Another article i found...


http://www.articlesbase.com/international-buisn...

Canadian TCKs in the news!
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story....

This is great we made the news.

Obama's Foreign-Policy Problem;


http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,859...


Some would argue that his childhood experiences, as well as his mixed heritage (his father was Kenyan, his mother from Kansas), gives him a better inner compass on foreign policy than most Americans. They cite the pioneering work of Ruth Hill Useem, the late sociologist of Michigan State University, who spent her career studying what she called Third Culture Kids — the millions of U.S. children (an estimated 20 million since the advent of mass air travel) who have been carted abroad by their missionary, diplomatic, corporate or military parents. These frequent-flier kids don't spend enough time in their adopted countries to become fully bicultural, but they take pieces and add it to their home values and traditions — creating millions of "Third Cultures." Studies have shows that kids who have spent time abroad are more likely to go to college, to relate to one another despite the influences of vastly differing cultures, and to latch on to one aspect of their culture — in Obama's case African Americanism.

"Living abroad does give you a wider view of the world," says Zbigniew Brzezinski, former National Security Adviser under Jimmy Carter, and a Polish-American who spent four years as a child living in Germany with his diplomat father. Obama is "a person with genuine sensitivity of world affairs," says Brzenzinski, who is supporting Obama. "It's not the conventional mouthing of culture sensitivities." Brzezinski points to Obama's greater willingness to meet leaders of hostile nations and his early resistance to the war in Iraq as examples of his superior intuition on foreign policy.

I was just listening to a local radio station and suddenly they started interviewing a psychologist about TCKs! When I say 'local radio station', it's actually for international people living in the area, so it's a topic that effects a number of people around here because there's a large number of highly mobile international families here. Anyway, I typed it all up as I listened and thought that you guys might be interested in reading the interview. I posted it on my blog, which you can find, as before, here: http://wanderlusttck.blogspot.com/

Good job on posting the transcript, Nick :) I'm sure it will be useful for some ATCKs who have kids.

That first Time article -- I KNOW THAT KID! Daniel Welch went to my high school. I did cheerleading with his sister, haha. WHAT A SMALL WORLD :)

Paulette Bethel just told me that McCain is a TCK! Haha, we'll have two TCKs running for president.. never thought this would happen.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23415028/

China's International Schools are Growing
Parents want high-quality instruction and the best schools are lifting neighborhood property values
http://tinyurl.com/2pt26n


SAU student still sees Africa as home
Teusink has made very significant differences in the lives of others. She acknowledges that she is no different from others, no matter what their standing in the world. She worked at an orphanage in Kenya, teaching children.

She has also done a lot of work with Third Culture Kids. Third Culture Kids are children who spent a great deal of their developmental years in a country other than their parents' culture. Teusink described them as people who have no real home, that fit in everywhere, but belong nowhere. She started a group on Spring Arbor University campus called Mukappa, an organization to help Third Culture Kids get together, reflect and share their stories.
http://media.www.crusaderonline.com/media/stora...


Global Branches Need Sturdy Local Roots
By Rahel Aima
Growing up as an expat brat in the United Arab Emirates really doesn't do much for your sense of self identity. Instead of reinforcing my parents' Indian heritage, I instead came to occupy the nebulous space of a third-culture kid. Shuffling somewhat awkwardly between national boundaries, third-culture kids are easily identifiable by their three passports and "international school accent." There is a sense of being from everywhere but not really belonging anywhere, always global yet never local. Despite this, Dubai's multiculturalism is something that I've really come to value. And when looking at colleges, Columbia did seem a touch more cosmopolitan and politically diverse, and just a bit less provincial, than Anytown, USA. The brochure looked good too. Students, scholars, and ideas from all over the world plus the privilege of being in a city as culturally rich and alive as New York? This, to me, was the power of a global university—it could root itself locally and still open its branches globally.
http://www.columbiaspectator.com/node/29692

Obama's third culture team!
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/...

(You can listen to interviews/stories of CCKs struggling with identity)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/outlook/2008/...

Lost in Translation: Living in an alien culture

"Outlook recently broadcast a series of programmes 'Lost in Translation'. Vera Frankl spoke to five people who had moved to Britain, from another country, at a very young age.

Vera discovered what it was like for these five people to be transplanted into an alien culture. Some came as refugees others as economic migrants. Whatever the reasons, it was a defining moment in their lives - and one they have struggled to come to terms with ever since.

When living within a new country a difficulty faced was how do you forge a new identity without losing a sense of yourself?"

Just learned that one of my favorite actors, Brendan Fraser is a ATCK/global nomad:
"As a child, Fraser said he always seemed to be the new kid in school, and he needed all the imaginary friends he could get. The fourth of four sons, he lived a nomadic life in the U.S., Canada, and Europe due to his father's job with the Canadian government office of tourism."
"Brendan Fraser masters CGI again"

The world is surely a lot safer with a ATCK Administration!

Kathleen Turner and Bette Midler are both ATCKs, as is Christopher Lambert- you can see Bette Midler adapted very skillfully and the KT and CL gave of themselves extremely.

This one is about Jero (Jerome White) an enka (Japan's version of country & western) singer in Japan. He looks African American, but is a quarter Japanese. Okay, he's not exactly the traditional TCK who moved around, but I watched his doco and he's pretty cool. His mom (half Japanese & half African American) lived in Japan and the US. Japan was difficult for her as she got bullied (most probably for looking different). He learnt Japanese in university and speaks it perfectly now. And he really loves enka. He seems to be pretty serious about it and is trying not to be just another passing foreign star who sings enka.

The coolest part in the doco I watched is this: He looks totally foreign, but he spoke Japanese so well that one Japanese guy that he met says to his agent standing nearby: 'Is he Japanese?' I was surprised that the asker thought it was possible that Jerome is Japanese considering how Japan traditionally has quite a narrow definition of what it means to be Japanese.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asi...

TCKs in the Jakarta Globe

http://thejakartaglobe.com/culture/third-cultur...

A guide on how to raise multilingual children - compiled & edited by an Indonesian diplomat kid who married a French diplomat kid

http://thejakartaglobe.com/culture/a-guidebook-...