Global Nomad’s and TCK - Get your GEAR!
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Thanks to the comment on my last post from Shoshauna, I was informed of a new shop for TCK gear. Thanks for the post and best of luck with the endeavour.
One interesting thing about TCK’s (that’s Third Culture Kids, for the uninitiated) is that I am not aware of any good internet based forum, if anyone comes to this post while looking for one, email me at (firstname@lastname.com) and let me know if you found something interesting.
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I found the below site a while back. It goes through lulls. Sometimes active, sometimes not. However, I have not really found a good forum for TCKs. It would be great if someobody was willing to start one.
http://www.livejournal.com/community/tck_world/
And for people, like me, who still did not get what TCK is, here is what wikipedia says
“Third Culture Kids (TCKs) is a term for children who have lived a significant portion of their lives in a country that is not their passport country, usually because of parents’ work obligations.
TCK’s share some common characteristics amongst the sub categories such as multilingualism, tolerance for other cultures, a never-ending feeling of homesickness for their adopted country and a desire to remain in close contact with friends from their adopted country as well as other TCK’s who they have grown up with.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCK
Hrm, that isn’t exactly accurate. One of the primary traits amongst TCKs is the lack of “belonging” anywhere. TCKs may “adopt” a country, but in general they feel out of place regardless of the country they are in.
In general TCKs feel most comfortable around other TCKs or foreigners in general.
Actually a TCK usually refers to a person who has grown up most of their life in one culture that is not their passport country because of a parents career choice… and thus has a special connection with that country. A global nomad is someone who has lived abroad (usually in multiple countries) because of parents job and more typically feel a more general/global sense of belonging. Ps. I think we can turn the GNVV into the forum that people are talking about.
Lovely, informative site, thanks
I like the way you set up that your info is the homepage, nicely done. Thanks!
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