Posts tagged citizen
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
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