culture — Stories

My first relationship started in Costa Rica. Running around the city, beach trips, endless sunny days. It was perfect…

In Love, Adulthood, Better Late Than Never, Bouncing Back, Moving, Relationships, Resilience, WomanBy Molly Kaitlin (From Peru, Costa Rica, Minnesota & Florida. Living in Tennessee)24 March 2021TCK, TCK TOWN, Third Culture Adult, third culture adult, culture, story, identityComment

The Bittersweetness of an International Friendship

One of the neighbours we connected with was a family from the Netherlands. Their lives mirrored our own as they too had recently relocated with a toddler in tow, exactly the same age as ours...

Love For The Moment

I will always be on the move. I will always choose this path no matter how lonely it may get sometimes...

If Change Were a Person…

We were given one week’s notice to pack our bags and leave the country…

The Powerful Words of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Chimamanda’s contributions are shaped greatly by her TCK experience, where she champions plurality…

Black Lives Matter, AfricaBy Danish Khan (From Melbourne, Perth, Karachi & Islamabad. Living in Karachi)17 February 2021TCK, TCK TOWN, Third Culture Adult, third culture adult, culture, story, identityComment

The Pink Lion from Tanzania

I wanted to claim Tanzania as my home, but how could I? I was not accepted by others as a part of their country…

(No Longer) In Your Arms

You gave me respite from the most difficult of memories. Other times, you were a source of shame…

Boundaries, Black Lives MatterBy Shannon Irby (From Ramstein, Tucson, Okinawa, Adana, D.C., San Antonio & Houston. Living in Okinawa.)30 January 2021TCK, TCA, boundaries, culture, connection, connected, memories, heart, importance, history, togetherComment

Lupita Nyong'o — Mexican and Kenyan Superstar

She starred in ‘Shuga’, an MTV/UNICEF-backed series looking at sexual relationships among youth in Nairobi, promoting HIV awareness…

Black Lives MatterBy Danish Khan (From Melbourne, Perth, Karachi & Islamabad. Living in Karachi)27 January 2021TCK, TCK TOWN, Third Culture Adult, third culture adult, culture, story, identityComment

Catalyzing World Class Education

We need to be developing global citizens who can engage with ideas and issues, make decisions and enact positive change…

Asia, Education, School, ChangeBy Seth Robinson (From the USA & Australia. Living in Melbourne)30 December 2020TCK, TCK TOWN, Third Culture Adult, third culture adult, culture, story, identityComment

When Manchester and Lima Collided

I taught my friends bachata in the middle of Manchester. My worlds were colliding…

Moving Back “Home”

My teachers weren’t interested that my life had been uprooted to return to a culture that I had little understanding of…

Education, School, MovingBy Natalie Silmon de Monerri (From London & Munich. Living in New York City)12 December 2020TCK, TCK TOWN, Third Culture Adult, third culture adult, culture, story, identityComment

'Weird Culture Kids'

This was the daily context in which I grew up: Vietnamese with a splash of Soviet culture at home, coupled with a very French environment at school…

Where Are You From?By Ngoc Nguyen (From Vietnam, France & the USA. Living in Paris)9 December 2020TCK, TCK TOWN, Third Culture Adult, third culture adult, culture, story, identityComment

South American Memories in the Margins

The warm and humid tropical air hugs me and in the blink of an eye, it opens a box of memories from another life…

South AmericaBy Eli G. Goa (From Bolivia & Norway. Living in China)2 December 2020TCK, TCK TOWN, Third Culture Adult, third culture adult, culture, story, identityComment

Stained Glass Shards of Autumn

A promise of fading light and cooling mercury…

Letting Go of Family (Dis)honour

How lonely my life could’ve been had I stuck to my culture which tells me to value the thick ties of family above all else...

We're Inspired, Advantages, Family, FriendshipsBy Farah Beaini (Living in the land of the Kulin nation)14 November 2020tck, third culture kid, TCK, TCK TOWN, family, cultures, culture, cultural, Lebanon, Lebanese, mother, parents, views, violent, relatives, sister, sisters, aunt, Australia, Australian, British, Canberra, Scottish, brother, Greek Comment

The Upfield Line

When the vaccine comes and lockdowns end, the world will be different. At least, that’s what everyone says…

COVID-19By Seth Robinson (From the USA & Australia. Living in Melbourne)4 November 2020TCK, TCK TOWN, Third Culture Adult, third culture adult, culture, story, identityComment

The Yellow Uniform Shirt

My form teacher peered over his spectacles at me like I was an exotic bird and gestured for me to take a seat…

SchoolBy Simone de Monerri (From London, Munich, Vienna & Berlin. Living in Essex)24 October 2020TCK, TCK TOWN, Third Culture Adult, third culture adult, culture, story, identityComment

Interested in Travelling While Teaching Online?

I have traveled to over 118 countries over the last four years because I could work online and earned a steady income even if I was spending one week in Lebanon and another week in Oman…

School, GuidesBy Kiran Bhat (From Jonesboro [Georgia] & Mysore. Living in Melbourne)14 October 2020TCK, TCK TOWN, Third Culture Adult, third culture adult, culture, story, identityComment

Social Hide & Seek

Our version of a corsage was a motia flower and though street vendors would sell these readily, they were not durable enough to hang around the hands of people as they danced…

Making Americans Great Again

Are white, American men going to keep steamrolling over our cultures with their incorrect ideas about who we are and how our differences could harm them?