You know you’re a third world country TCK when:

-You might like your passport country, but secretly wish you had a different passport

-Even other TCKs call you “the foreign kid”

-People ask you to stop faking your accent because “only white people talk like that”

-You always get “random checks” at the airport

-You may be a rich kid in your passport country, but you often have less pocket money than most of your friends when abroad

-When in your passport country, your friends think your house is an NGO ready to give away all its stuff

-You speak the international school’s official language and don’t speak a word of your mother tongue

-Despite speaking English at home you are required to provide a TOEFL test score with your college application

-Though you spent most of your life abroad, people still ask you whether you adjusted to the cold weather. Ironically, you were often born in a country with very cold winters

-If born in a foreign country, you only realized you were not eligeble for citizenship in your early adulthood

-If you manage to get another citizenship, you will wear a t-shirt displaying a picture of your new passport for months

-You are eager to answer any question related to the United States until the person who asked the questions says “not you, you’re not American”

-You wish you could hang out with people from your passport country, but they’re just non-existent

-People avoid saying the words “poverty”, “war” or “terrorism” when you’re around to avoid offending you, though you would readily discuss those topics

-You secretly fear people might think you’re a spy or a terrorist

-when you stand in line for a visa application you ask yourself “Jesus, how could I go through the same process as these people who know nothing about the country they’re applying to”

-You have the solution to development and democracy in your passport country but unfortunately you don’t speak your passport country’s language fluently enough

-You’re falttered when people think you’re American and say to yourself “boy I wish that were true”

-You often change the topic when people ask you “where are you from” because answers like “I wish I knew” are perceived as arrogant

-You are often asked stupid questions like “do you know how to use a computer?”

-People often make stupid reminders like “people don’t work on Saturdays, it’s called a weekend” or “don’t forget to buy a ticket before riding the subway”

-When you complain people ask you “would it be any better in your country?”

etc. etc.

By Akli, who lost his password. Seriously dear webmaster, let us choose our own passwords^^

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