#Third Culture Kids

[educationmundo]

THIRD CULTURE KIDS IN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOLS: THE JOYS AND CHALLENGES

TCKs are individuals who have been raised in a culture other than their parents' culture or the country of their passport. They are children of international migrants who have typically been exposed to many different cultures and languages,

What is a third culture kid? I not only have a professional interest in the experiences of Third Culture Kids (TCKs) in international schools, but as a father of three children my interest is personal too. My own children have a British/Irish father, a Zambian mother, and are schooling in Germany; and thus the experiences TCKs have in the world of education is quite pertinent to my family and…

[eebie]

[witchofthesouls]

Can you explain how preening works on bots? For someone who new to the idea of it.

Preening is a real-life bird grooming behavior that extends the life of their feathers as well as waterproof them using an oil secretion from a gland and a bonding activity, too. Transformers fandom likens the Seekers to birds, so I'm doing my duty and expanding on it lol

For Seekerkin, preening is a grooming behavior that satisfies multiple functions: a social activity for the trine and flock, a necessary and vital part of maintenance to check out the responsiveness and state of their flight systems, and trains the very young or very new on how to handle environmental influx, both passive and active. It's typically guided by the more experienced hand: mentor to student, parent/guardian to child or newbuild, elder to newcomer, trainer to trainee. A pair of hands skims and go over the expanse and edges before using their talons to pick out the slag in the fine seams as they test out various sites and sensor response.

It's an activity that actively builds social cohesion as it takes a lot of trust to allow someone else around appendages packed with a variety of sensors. It feels good as well. Not a sexual pleasure. It's more akin to good massage or very nice body scrub. A great source of stress relief under an at-home health check. Of course, that also fosters relationships between kin, trines, cohorts, and flocks.

Arcee and Bumblebee have their own sensory panels to care for, and it's a job for a second pair of hands. Ratchet has similarities with his own servos.

Miko is too much of a young menace to realize others don't have her own War-Forged physiology, so she's allowed to go ham on the heavier armored Autobots because she's mimicking the care she's receiving.

[sharksandjays]

just made homemade turkish chai for the first time in 4 years…i miss home

[ceasarslegion]

Forced displacement isn't like, good suddenly when you do it to the citizens of the Bad Country. Although I guess I can't count on the "the problem with dictators is that they aren't left wing" website not to say "the problem with the apartheid state is that the wrong people are being forced out of a given area instead of the right people to force out"

I mean I thought we all agreed that random ass Russian citizens weren't at fault for the actions of their government, but I guess it's different when the demographic is primarily Jewi-oops I almost said the quiet part out loud I guess I'm a violent zionist who supports genocidal bombing campaigns now

[totally-ikea]

Shout out to all the Third Culture Kids who still wonder what the smell of home even is

[ruibaozha]

From what I understand, your advice is that we shouldn't stick to just one version of a story or consider it the true version. And that a story has several versions. And these versions do not make one less than the other. Like, we can choose one version of the story as long as we understand that there are more versions.

Hello!

Yes this is precisely it. It’s very easy to assume that one way a story is told is the only valid version, but it also neglects how it historically was shared and retold - regardless of if deities are involved. Of course people are allowed to express favoritism, myself having moved from Wuhan, I prefer Wuhanese storytelling.

Did you know there’s roughly 360 different types of regional Chinese Opera that coexist? And with such a large variation in a specific area of performing arts, there’s bound to be more variation in nearly anything else.

Myself and the study of Nezha/Nalakubara has led me down many many different rabbit holes into how he was spread across east and southeast Asia. He appears in India, China, Taiwan, Macau, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Kazakhstan, Tibet, and very likely many other places I have yet to know. It would be very ignorant of me to assume the Chinese Daoist method of worship to be the only acceptable kind - and downright shameful to dismiss how other countries worship him.

It’s a lengthy answer, but I hope I was able to convey my feelings and personal thoughts properly.

[i-didnt-hate-it]

Okay I've just gotta talk about The Acolyte for a second. Potential spoilers for episode 7.

I'll be honest, this last episode wasn't as cool as the previous few for me. The flashbacks just aren't doing it for me, I'm not sure why.

But one "issue" that I really thought a lot about episode 7, that I feel like people are probably gonna complain about (because "fans" will complain about anything), is how what the Jedi do doesn't make any sense.

Because yeah, it kinda doesn't. But I'm not saying the writing doesn't make sense. Honestly I'm not talking about the writing at all. In universe, what the Jedi do om Brendok doesn't make sense. But it's also EXACTLY what the Jedi would do. They're just too high on themselves to realize that they're doing something crazy until it goes as bad as it possibly could.

This is the High Republic era. The Jedi are so incredibly untainted that they think they can do no wrong. They only begin to think about how taking children away from their homes might be a bad thing when it results the destruction of the entire community and almost the loss of their own.

Like the only reason this particular kidnapping by the Jedi is noteworthy is because a bunch of people died because of the Jedi interfering. And considering how the counsel covered it up, who knows how many more times "accidents" like this happened?

The Jedi really look at a completely alien culture, see kids that they can manipulate, and say, "is for me?"

I've seen things comparing Sol to Qui-Gon Jinn, but... no? Sol is like Qui-Gon, if instead of making a deal to free Anakin, he just said "hey Shmi, you know I have a right to test your kid, right?" and then killed Shmi, and blamed the destruction of Mos Espa on C-3PO after he started a fire. Like if in the Phantom Menace they just flew away with Anakin while Tatooine burns behind them, that's pretty much what Sol did.

The only reason Sol seems so wisened in the "present" is because he's had 16 years to think about what a big mistake he made.

[dittohasadhd]

something people just don't understand about Third Culture Kids is that being removed from our first culture doesn't mean we've automatically assimilated to our host culture. we're alienated from our family's culture of origin, alienated from the host culture as well, and expected to navigate both. that's the whole point of the term.

[catchcrows]

anakin, ten years old, who's never heard obi-wan speak in anything but a coruscanti basic accent: hey master, you're back! how did your meeting with the council go?

obi-wan, who hung around the little stewjon district in coruscant as a kid because qui-gon thought it would be good for him: ye ever wanty just wrap yersel up in durafoil nice and cosy and then just kriffing get right inty the nanowave and blow yerself up tae kark?

[janmenart]

Cabbagetober Day 9 - Avatar

A quick lil drawing of my Avatar Legends character! Her name is Mori, her father is an Earth Kingdom community leader and her mother was a fire nation soldier before the end of the war. She’s caught between the cultural expectations of both backgrounds as she struggles to fit into both- or neither!

[grainsofexcellence]

Here's me working with all my assistance animals on sharing and manners. My son's the rudest while my two girls are so patient.

[cupids-fiction]

analysing poetry is so weird because most of the time i have so much to say but sometimes you get a poem that just makes sense. it encapsulates an experience you have struggled to vocalise, and that is all. you could dissect it, but why would you?

for me, that’s the emigree by carol rumens

[sharksandjays]

one thing people dont seem to understand about TCKs is that we…dont have a home.

Because to me, home is always the last place i live. Just when i come to think of it as home, im ripped from it and expected to deal with the grief as ive done every time, in silence.

Yeah, im happy in my new “home” but i miss home. and the home before that. and the home before that. and the home before that. and the home before that. and the home before that. and the home before that.

no matter what, ill always yearn for a home that i will never be able to return to.

[river-taxbird]

If you want to know what it's like to be Northern Irish, check out this chart from Wikipedia. Personally I fall into the second last category, being able to identify as British, Irish, and Northern Irish depending on the situation. Being raised with three different national identities and not really fully identifying with any of them was pretty confusing, and it really did give me the lasting impression that the whole thing is fake. Because of this, I consider myself a third culture kid despite always living in the same region.

[diaryofaphilosopher]

This book is an exile's book. For objective reasons that I had no control over, I grew up as an Arab with a Western education. Ever since I can remember, I have felt that I belonged to both worlds, without being completely of either one or the other [...] Yet when I say "exile" I do not mean something sad or deprived. On the contrary belonging, as it were, to both sides of the imperial divide enables you to understand them more easily.

— Edward W. Said, Culture and Imperialism.

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