Posts tagged Europe
The Spaghetti Standoff
The Spaghetti Standoff

As a third culture kid, she looked for a partner from an Indian background to avoid having to explain her cultural specificities on an everyday basis. And look where it landed her…

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In Love, Food, RelationshipsBy Chetna Prakash (From India, Zambia, Germany, UK & Australia. Living in Melbourne)TCK TOWN, TCK, Tck, London, Tesco, spaghetti bolognese, Hindu, standoff, Australia, Europe, traditional, non-traditional, topsy-turvy, convention, identityComment
I’ll Prove Mummy Wrong Yet!
I’ll Prove Mummy Wrong Yet!

Daydreams also hit roadblocks. Living across cultures as a travel writer is all well and good if you only have yourself to look after. It is harder if you are trying to raise kids and need a 9 to 5 to provide for them...

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CareersBy Chetna Prakash (From India, Zambia, Germany, UK & Australia. Living in Melbourne)tck, Tck, TCK TOWN, TCK, third culture kid, diversity, culture, Europe, career, job, daydream, travel, writer, Australian, Australia, social media, global, worlds, country, family, challenges, IndianComment
The Friend In The Mirror
The Friend In The Mirror

People will say one nation or region is more friendly than another. I honestly can say I think that people are pretty much the same all over the world. So if you are an asshole in Baltimore, moving to another country won’t magically transform you into everyone’s hero...

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FriendshipsBy Paul Kennedy (From The Western Pacific, South East Asia, Europe & Alaska. Living in Tokyo)TCK TOWN, Tck, third culture kid, cultures, culture, friend, friendship, friends, best friend, nation, nationality, Baltimore, town, small town, Asia, Europe, Pacific, Western Pacific, Pacific region, Friendship, midwest, Australia, Guam, Fiji, West Coast, TexasComment
My Unicorn and I
My Unicorn and I

I can choose how Japanese I am: I never leave my chopsticks standing up in a bowl of rice because that is a funeral practice here and I avoid the number 4 like the plague in food service... 

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Speak EasyBy Paul Kennedy (From The Western Pacific, South East Asia, Europe & Alaska. Living in Tokyo)TCK TOWN, tck, TCK, third culture kid, culture, cultural, story, friends, friend, friendship, Canada, India, Bombay, Mumbai, Tokyo, Japan, Japanese, Canadian, unicorn, india, Indian, Malaysia, Malaysian, Chamorro, Guam, church, churches, mosques, American, America, foreign, foreigners, diversity, village, Hebrew, Yiddish, Europe, European, pastComment
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