When your mother is from Finland,your father from Senegal, and you live in neither, or your identity becomes a matter of choice
“No,but where are you really from?” It is the question that automatically makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. Like many “third culture kids” (TCKs), I panic, and wondering whether the question refers to my nationality,where I was born, where I am living now, and where my parents live.
The term,coined by the American sociologist Ruth Hill Useem, refers to a child who has spent a significant part of their formative years external their parents’ culture. People who fit that bill beget a tendency to mix and merge their birth culture with their adopted culture, and creating one of their own: a third culture.
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Source: theguardian.com