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Owning My Culture Crown
Owning My Culture Crown

HALLOWEEN SPECIAL:

I put my gown on and placed my tiara on my curly updo. Finally, I awarded myself the “Miss America” sash that I had marked with a sharpie to say “Miss ATCK,” instead…

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Traditions & CustomsBy Megan Norton (From the United States, South Africa, South Korea, Germany, Japan, Israel, Austria, Greece, Hungary, and Poland. Living in Michigan)TCK TOWN, tck, Tck, atck, Halloween, the States, South Africa, South Korea, Germany, Japan, Israel, Austria, Greece, Hungary, costume, Christian, holidays, identity, belonging, values, creativeComment
Micronesian Chinese Money in Alaska
Micronesian Chinese Money in Alaska

My family lived abroad. The arts embraced in Micronesia were very different from those in British Hong Kong. There was little chance to delve into interpretive or classical art. When you weren’t taking the aspects you liked, discarding what you didn't and establishing your own local spin on painting, dance and music, you had to go microcosmic...

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Thank You, Traditions & CustomsBy Paul Kennedy (From The Western Pacific, South East Asia, Europe & Alaska. Living in Tokyo)TCK TOWN, tck, Tck, TCK, third culture kid, cultural, culture, art, the arts, Micronesia, creative, mother, father, family, school, parents, museum, France, Austria, Holland, Hong KongComment
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