Third Culture Kids: Growing Up Among Worlds, Revised Edition [Kindle Edition] Author: David C. Pollock | Language: English | ISBN:
B004774S1O | Format: PDF, EPUB
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Posts about Download The Book Download Third Culture Kids: Growing Up Among Worlds, Revised Edition [Kindle Edition] for everyone book with Mediafire Link Download Link For more than a decade, Third Culture Kids has been the authority on "TCKs"-- children of expatriates, missionaries, military personnel and others who live and work abroad. With a significantpart of their developmental years spent outside of their passport country, TCKs create their own, unique "third" cultures. Authors Pollock and Van Reken pioneered the TCK profile, which brought to light the emotional and psychological realities that come with the TCK journey, often resulting in feelings of rootlessness and grief but also in increased confidence and ability to interact with many cultures.Through interviews and personal writings, this new, expanded edition explores the challenges and benefits that TCKs encounter, and also widens the net to discuss the experiences of CCKs, cross-cultural kids, who are immigrants, international adoptees or the children of biracial or bicultural parents. Highlighting dramatic changes brought about by instant communication and ever-evolving mobility patterns, Third Culture Kids reveals the hidden diversity in our world and challenges our traditional notions of identity and "home"-- and shows us how the TCK experience is becoming increasingly common and valuable. Books with free ebook downloads available Download Third Culture Kids: Growing Up Among Worlds, Revised Edition [Kindle Edition]
- File Size: 1317 KB
- Print Length: 321 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1857885252
- Publisher: Nicholas Brealey Publishing; Revised edition (September 25, 2009)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B004774S1O
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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This book is invaluable for anyone who is or cares about a third culture kid (TCK): ?one who has "spent a significant part of his or her developmental years outside the parents' cultures". ?This experience is common to children of missionaries, parents who work for international corporations, foreign service, aid organizations, educators, media representatives, military service, or whatever takes them out of their home country for an extended period of time. ?This TCK experience can also happen actually to children who remain in their home country but live in a different culture within it, e.g. those whose parents work on an Indian reservation in the U.S. while not being born to that culture.
Many of the differences the reader would probably be aware of, such as differences in eye contact, handshaking, pointing and other mannerisms. ?I remember walking out of a training about Native American communication where we talked about the fact that direct eye contact can be a sign of disrespect to elders in that culture, and having a conversation with a young man who made no eye contact with me. ?My whole body strongly said?
"he's lying or hiding something" - not to be trusted. ?I could THINK all day long about those differences, but had to be sure to pay attention to the responses my body was having and not react based on my ignorance. ?The authors of this book go more deeply into the effect these differences have on relationships, self-esteem, isolation, etc. ?
Other issues addressed are, e.g. how does one form deep attachments with those around them when they know they are always separated eventually. ?There is no payoff and lots of pain in forming attachments.
Another example of an unforeseen difficulty certainly is education.
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