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Third Culture Kids - Definition | Expat with Kids
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Where am I from. Wednesday, September 7, 2011. Third Culture Kids - Definition. TCKs are the prototype citizens of the future.". Ted Ward, sociologist, 1984. Lately I have come across the TCK (Third Culture Kids) definition repeatedly, a term that became popular in the early 1980's. Personally I discovered TCK back in 2005 when I read David Pollock and Ruth van Reken's book "Third Culture Kids". I was amazed to discover that there was actually a name to they way I had been living. Having said that, much ...
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Welcome to Lugano | Expat with Kids
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Where am I from. He who returns from a journey is not the same as he who left." Chinese Proverb. Lugano - Lügan in Ticinese dialect - is a city in the south of Switzerland, in the Italian-speaking canton of Ticino where Italian and Mediterrean way of life is mixed with Swiss precision and efficiency. For this scenery Lugano is sometimes also called little Rio de Janeiro. In order to foster, integrate, as well as celebrate this incredible variety of ethnicities, the town of Lugano has established various ...
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Third Culture Kids - Characteristics | Expat with Kids
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Where am I from. Thursday, September 8, 2011. Third Culture Kids - Characteristics. 8220;A Third Culture Kid is a person who has spent a significant part of his or her developmental years outside their parents’ culture.". There are different characteristics that impact the typical Third Culture Kid:. TCKs are 4 times as likely as non-TCKs to earn a bachelor's degree (81% vs 21%). 40% earn an advanced degree (as compared to 5% of the non-TCK population.). 44% earned undergraduate degree after the age of 22.
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4 common attributes of TCK | Expat with Kids
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Where am I from. Wednesday, November 2, 2011. 4 common attributes of TCK. Children who grow up overseas, whose parents' careers keep them abroad for most, or all of their formative years, are called - Third Culture Kids. Studies show that these kids mature faster, are more independent and introspective, more sophisticated and cosmopolitan, and far more knowledgeable about the world than their compatriots from their country of birth. However this traumatic aspect is becoming a thing of the past, with the ...
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