Posts tagged passport
Americanah & Moving West
Americanah & Moving West

But that was just it. I had to fit in wherever I went. Nobody else had to mould their ways to engage with my understanding of identity and belonging…

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AfricaBy Danish Khan (From Melbourne, Perth, Karachi & Islamabad. Living in Karachi)Africa, TCK, TCK TOWN, third culture kid, literature, characters, novel, Nigeria, West, western, America, American, diaspora, England, work, passport, identity, Pakistan, Pakistani, Australia, Australian, migrants, migrant, migrationComment
When the Chameleon Grew Pale
When the Chameleon Grew Pale

When the little chameleon girl was born, she was completely green, just like her parents. On her first day in kindergarten she was shocked to find out that no one else was green, the other kids were mostly purple...

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WomanBy Wiebke Homborg (From Belgium, USA, Spain, Germany, Chile & Mexico. Living in Hanover)TCK TOWN, TCK, tck, ATCK, chameleon, switching colours, moving countries, international, international festivals, rainbow, passport, travel, nomad, nomadic life, family, routine Comment
The Art of Seduction: TCK Male Chronicles
The Art of Seduction: TCK Male Chronicles

For the sake of science, and the greater cause of humanity, one TCK-male set off on an empirical journey to discover the romantic intricacies of women, worldwide. On his quest into unchartered territories (well, not completely unchartered, but how many can claim a voyage to woo the world?), he propositioned females from different countries... 

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In LoveBy Danish Khan (From Melbourne, Perth, Karachi & Islamabad. Living in Karachi)pepper sprah, TCK, propositions, Male, Pakistani, circumcised, Indonesia, Salman Khan, India, Australian, married, passport, seduction, introduction, Pakistan, Female, single Comment
How to Separate the Men From the Boys
How to Separate the Men From the Boys

If you thought this could only happen in Pakistan, you are wrong. It happened in Singapore, and it even happened in Australia (even though there, I had to earn my spot in earnest)...

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AdulthoodBy Danish Khan (From Melbourne, Perth, Karachi & Islamabad. Living in Karachi)tck, Tck, TCK TOWN, TCK, third culture kid, culture, adulthood, adult, passport, travel, memories, legal, young, rite of passage, maturity, responsibility, accountability, independence, Pakistan, Australia, parents, financial, internship Comment
AVA
AVA

My floor-to-ceiling glass windows overlooking the city street doesn't stop me boogie-ing alone in my underpants at home. Melbourne's ideals about acceptance, love and normalisation of a woman's body have helped me shrug off nakedness as no big deal...

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Speak EasyBy Ava Senaratne (From Sri Lanka, Dubai & Melbourne. Living in Sydney)Dubai, Japan, TCK, city, Bahrain, citizen, culture, business, Tasmania, Launceston, tck, Australian, passport, Australia, Melbourne, Tokyo, citizenship, relationships, relationship, local, friendship, third culture kid, TCK TOWN, language, Jumeirah, multilocal, friend, travelComment
ANAM
ANAM

Pakistan has been flagged by the Australian government as a "terrorist country" and yet I consider it home...

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Speak EasyBy Anam Javed (From Pakistan. Living in Melbourne)TCK TOWN, tck, TCK, third culture kid, local, multilocal, Pakistan, Pakistani, Malaysian, Malaysia, music, work, Brunei, Melbourne, Australian, Australia, passport, rituals, relationship, relationships, mother, happy, call, Islam, Identity, home, identity, travelled, travel, world, United Nations, hope, bucket listComment
PAUL
PAUL

My passports have always been issued from abroad. In the 1980s my passports were changed to blue "Z" instead of the standard blue. I was treated like a second class citizen each time I “returned” to the US and travelling in my 20's through Europe with it in the Cold War was sheer hell on the Eastern side of the Iron Curtain...  

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Speak EasyBy Paul Kennedy (From The Western Pacific, South East Asia, Europe & Alaska. Living in Tokyo)tck, TCK TOWN, TCK, third culture kid, Paul Kennedy, Paul, local, multilocal, born, Atlantic, Spain, Guam, Alaska, Korea, European, South-East Asia, Asian, home, Washington, California, Texas, Germany, Austria, Europe, Americans, eat, spice, culinary, Spanish, English, Mexico, German, US, citizen, passport, Tokyo Comment
Home
Home

My sense of belonging fluctuates like an erratic pulse and my nationalistic pride skyrockets when faced with a belligerent non-Pakistani who questions the mess my country has become...

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Where Are You From?By Anam Javed (From Pakistan. Living in Melbourne)third culture kid, tck, TCK TOWN, journal, where are you from, belonging, Pakistan, Australia, pride, immigration, passport, first-world, homesickness, travelled, home, language, religious beliefs, migrants, refugees Comments