Posts tagged multilocal
The Guts of Being Cross-Cultural
The Guts of Being Cross-Cultural

With the whole of my heart (and my guts), I believe that your accent is fine just the way it is. There isn't really a right way to say 'tomato'. While you can't expect others to agree with your cultural identity, you can expect people to respect it...

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Thank YouBy Ava Senaratne (From Sri Lanka, Dubai & Melbourne. Living in Sydney)advice, culture, lessons, multicultural, cultures, ideas, cross cultural, tck, friends, inspiration, new year, beliefs, 2018, love, relationships, relationship, family, friendship, TCK TOWN, language, multilocalComment
AVA
AVA

My floor-to-ceiling glass windows overlooking the city street doesn't stop me boogie-ing alone in my underpants at home. Melbourne's ideals about acceptance, love and normalisation of a woman's body have helped me shrug off nakedness as no big deal...

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Speak EasyBy Ava Senaratne (From Sri Lanka, Dubai & Melbourne. Living in Sydney)Dubai, Japan, TCK, city, Bahrain, citizen, culture, business, Tasmania, Launceston, tck, Australian, passport, Australia, Melbourne, Tokyo, citizenship, relationships, relationship, local, friendship, third culture kid, TCK TOWN, language, Jumeirah, multilocal, friend, travelComment
ANTHONY
ANTHONY

I am or have been a local of London, Lahore, Dacca, New Delhi, Kuwait City, Dhahran, Manila, Bangkok, Pattaya, Tokyo, Salt Lake City, Evanston (Wyoming), Istanbul, Saigon, Hong Kong, Toronto, Freetown, Addis Ababa, Singapore. It seems like a lot but it's kind of a blur. 

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Speak EasyBy Anthony Arcis (From America, London, Istanbul, Bangkok & Toronto (mainly). Living in The Philippines)TCK TOWN, tck, TCK, third culture kid, local, multilocal, London, Lahore, Dacca, New Delhi, Kuwait City, Dhahran, Manila, Bangkok, Pattaya, Tokyo, Salt Lake City, Evanston, Istanbul, Saigon, Hong Kong, Toronto, Freetown, Addis Ababa, Singapore, family, parents, relatives, rituals, meditation, moving, world, news, relationships, friends, restrictions Comment
ANAM
ANAM

Pakistan has been flagged by the Australian government as a "terrorist country" and yet I consider it home...

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Speak EasyBy Anam Javed (From Pakistan. Living in Melbourne)TCK TOWN, tck, TCK, third culture kid, local, multilocal, Pakistan, Pakistani, Malaysian, Malaysia, music, work, Brunei, Melbourne, Australian, Australia, passport, rituals, relationship, relationships, mother, happy, call, Islam, Identity, home, identity, travelled, travel, world, United Nations, hope, bucket listComment
DANISH
DANISH

I am a reverse brain-drain story. Pakistan exported me for the sake of knowledge creation - however, I came back empty-handed. They still had the generosity to take me back in, but I feel they are having second thoughts...

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Speak EasyBy Danish Khan (From Melbourne, Perth, Karachi & Islamabad. Living in Karachi)TCK TOWN, tck, TCK, third culture kid, local, multilocal, postcode, Pakistan, Pakistani, Australia, Australian, rituals, ritual, reading, religion, read, travel, friends, friendship, family, phone, Speak Easy Comment
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