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Third Culture Kids in the News
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A list of news articles featuring the Third Culture Kids experience. If you about an online news articles on TCKs, please share them with the community and leave the link in the comments. If you’re interested in watching TCK videos, you may be interested in checking Top 5 TCK Videos you probably haven’t seen.
Yahoo: Third Culture Kids - cultural chameleons and global nomads
Telegraph: Why business needs our third culture kids
The internationally mobile community is growing. Employers need to be made aware of the unique talents and abilities that this special group can bring to today’s multicultural workplace.
Telegraph: Third culture kids are left a complex legacy
“I felt such relief,” she said upon learning about ATCKs. “On the one hand, it felt unusual to be pigeonholed, but reading and learning about the subject provided a tremendous amount of validation for me.”
Expatica: Is your child a ‘third culture kid’?
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR: When No Place Feels Like Home
INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE: Often More Accomplished, But Sometimes More Troubled
INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE: Nowhere To Call Home But I Like Being A Global Nomad
INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE: For Teens, It’s A Tough Transition
INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE: Some ‘Third-Culture Kids’ Uncertain Which World Is Really Theirs
THE GUARDIAN: The Spy Who Wouldn’t Keep A Secret
ORLANDO SENTINEL: Understanding a Third-Culture Kid (John Kerry)
GEORGETOWN INDEPENDENT: An Expat in Texan Clothing
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December 12th, 2007 at 4:21 am
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!
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December 12th, 2007 at 4:31 am
So does the John Kerry one. Sorry to be a bother, i just really want to read them.
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December 12th, 2007 at 5:47 am
The TIME article , Rooted to Nowhere, is pretty good. It’s not too long so I can keep my focus on it hahahhaha.
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December 12th, 2007 at 2:40 pm
Thanks for spotting that, Isa! I appreciate. I did find the article after Googling for it, however it has no mention of TCKs so unless it was another article, I will remove it from the list.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,18929219-7583,00.html
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December 12th, 2007 at 2:42 pm
Here’s the John Kerry TCK article
http://news.ufl.edu/2004/07/29/third-culture-oped/
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December 18th, 2007 at 10:08 pm
Another article i found…
http://www.articlesbase.com/international-buisness-articles/third-culture-kids-tcks-teenage-trauma-on-repatriation-284082.html
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December 20th, 2007 at 7:56 pm
Canadian TCKs in the news!
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=459b5765-fb17-4f0d-a6a6-c987ee0e5675&k=73633
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December 20th, 2007 at 11:14 pm
This is great we made the news.
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December 21st, 2007 at 7:34 pm
[…] or more cultural environments for a significant period of time during developmental years.” Third Culture Kids in the news A list of news articles from Time magazine, to local newspapers, featuring the Third Culture Kids […]
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January 2nd, 2008 at 7:50 am
Obama’s Foreign-Policy Problem;
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1695803,00.html?imw=Y
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.
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January 11th, 2008 at 2:56 am
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/
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January 11th, 2008 at 3:20 am
Good job on posting the transcript, Nick
I’m sure it will be useful for some ATCKs who have kids.
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February 21st, 2008 at 1:32 am
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
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March 1st, 2008 at 9:41 am
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/
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March 9th, 2008 at 11:46 pm
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/storage/paper990/news/2008/03/06/Features/Sau-Student.Still.Sees.Africa.As.Home-3254490.shtml
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
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