Are you a third culture kid?

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All TCK’s report here :Salute:

A Third Culture kid (TCK) is an individual who, having spent a significant part of the developmental years in a culture other than that of their parents, develops a sense of relationship to both. These children of business executives, soldiers and sailors, diplomats, and missionaries who live abroad, become “culture-blended” persons who often contribute in unique and creative ways to society as a whole.

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:Salute:

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i think that would probably be a majority of posters here, even those living in Pakistan.

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so get out and salute rav!

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Zakk

That’s a poor attempt at getting attention/feeling special, 90% of GS population is like that :snooty:

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^Sehar i just wanted to fit in.. :bummer:

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Hmm........ I dont know. I have not lived much in Pakistan. Maybe 8 years or so. Does that make me a TCK?

And what about those kids whose home is in Pakistan but they keep travelling around the world to live in different countries for every 2 years or so due to their father's job requirements. Are these kids also TCKs?

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That would be the same as diplomats ER.

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I have spent 9 years of my life in middle east (7 in yemen and 2 in oman), 8 in pak and rest in US .....

but ya most of the guppies over here will be TKC

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i didnt know they was such a term for us belonging neither here nor there. now i know how to refer to myself.... i'm a TCK

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aah, this term sounds so much better than the "dhobi ka kutta".

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TCK ? Tikka & Chicken Karahi ? :)

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with the advent of internet, pc games and before television,kids and teenagers have been living in different worlds than their parents anyway, people don’t have to travel the world to become aliens in their own houses:D.
Most parents have problems to keep up with fast technology improvments that their kids goble easily into their own “world”

this world is getting more and more globaln and anywhere on the planet life is very different than it was 50 years ago.

So i think we’re all third world kids for our parents
:k: thumbs up for parents, it’s a tough job nowadays;)

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Definitely.:dhimpak:

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I hate culture...

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^How would you identify urself then? Culture is just a form of identity.

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:Salute:

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I think I am too but it's just that I am not a kid so where i fall?

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I identify myself as a muselman, as god's creature...
Being a human is a form of identity!
or do animals have a culture?

they are god's creation, too.

Culture is not a form of identity...

it's so hard
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lets have a tck party for u. a pity party, so u wont feel left out anymore. :hehe: