#third culture kid
Chinatown Pretty is a street style blog featuring seniors living in San Francisco’s Chinatown. Started by two Asian-American friends inspired by their grandmothers’ fashion, the blog showcases senior fashion through third culture kids’ eyes, connecting two generations over unexpectedly shared aesthetics.
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Obsessed with Ayqa Khan’s ‘Liberation’ for Kajal Magazine, a photo essay on the artful transition from parent-approved to party-ready. Classic.
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It’s not every day your parents buy a boat behind your back, but there I was.
Hi. I’m Sarah, and I’m a Third-Culture Kid. And it feels weird to say that, because I’m not used to being able to call myself anything. Usually I find a box I can almost fit into, but nothing has ever been a perfect fit… until the other day, when I was having coffee with a friend.
‘You’re so lucky to be a TCK.’ She laughed, and my ears swivelled around without my permission.
‘A what?’
‘A third…
As a third culture kid, I wasn’t raised in the same country as the rest of my family. Even when I was growing up in America, our nearest family were a 3-hour plane ride away. My grandparents visited every summer, but everyone else was back in England, so I only had stories about them.
I grew up knowing I had a big family, with a lot of aunts and uncles and cousins on both sides; so many that as a…
I’ve been listening to a lot of music from my teens (don’t ask why, I wish I knew) and realising a lot of it had a different meaning to me as a Third Culture Kid than it did to other listeners. In the process of clearing out my MP3 Player (I know, I’m old, I hate it) I found a few tunes that your inner fifteen year old TCK will bang their head to.
1.Inside the Outsider, Marina and the Diamonds
T…
Of all Third Culture Kids (TCKs), Freddie Mercury is certainly the most famous. Everything about the man screams Rock Star– his outrageous outfits, his incredible talent, and his well-documented sexual exploits. Everyone seems to focus on these parts of him, but there’s another thing not many people talk about- the fact that he choose his culture, and it wasn’t what he was born into.
“Freddie’s…
Being a boat kid, an army brat, or a multiple-times-an-immigrant kid isn’t without benefits: ‘Third Culture Kids’ (TCKs) are more adaptable, more open-minded, and better cross-cultural communicators than our single-cultured counterparts.
Yet, travelling a lot between cultures we have no ‘birthright’ to participate in isn’t without challenges either. Often the people we need help from most- our…
Being a Third Culture Kid (TCK), your whole worldview is different. You see everything through multiple cultural fields, sometimes not even realising that’s what you’re doing. You’d think this makes communication easier- and it does!- but it makes relationships a whole lot harder.
Typically, we fall into two camps:
- We grab the first person we can stick to and don’t let go, so they can never leave…
Born into one culture, brought onto a boat at a young age, raised on-the-go… it can feel like your brain is a blender. Taking in all this information, culture, and experience at once, mixing it together, forming a ‘you’ that nobody else reallygets.
Even when you return to the country where you were born, you might look like everyone else, but something’s different. You don’t relate to these…
Columbia, Panama, Mexico, Oh My! Recipe for TCK Tamales
I had a few requests to share my Christmas tamale recipe from friends and family, so here’s a blog post about it. #recipe #foodblog #foodie #tck
These tamales are a culmination of my own personal tastes, a month of research, as well as this recipe for vegetarian tamales and this recipe for Columbian tamales. While they are time consuming to create, you’ll be rewarded with a delicious and long-lasting delicacy for the whole family to enjoy.
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Corn husks or banana leaves (corn husks are more common in Mexican tamales, while…
Race, from a TCK Perspective. Something a little different. #InSupportofBlackLives #SelfPublished
You would look at me funny if I told you I’ve experienced racism. I’m pale, blue-eyed, and as a kid I was platinum blonde. I grew up privileged, travelling the world on a frickin’ yacht, so what could I possibly mean when I say,
‘I’ve experienced racism.’
Hmmmmm?
Well, by most definitions, I haven’t. I have never been in a place where my race caused people to view me as lesser, where it…
Getting to know other Third Culture Kids, I’ve had a realisation: growing up on a boat makes the TCK experience pretty damn different. The ‘typical’ experience is to move every two or three years from place to place, school to school, and really only feel at home in an airport because you’ve travelled so much.
Yeah, the boat life makes that look downright stable.
Growing up, My family moved every…
