Similarly, you may ask, are you a Third Culture Kid?
A third culture kid is defined as a person who has spent a significant part of his or her developmental years outside the parent's culture. The TCK frequently builds relationships to all the cultures while not having full ownership in any.
Subsequently, question is, how many TCKs are there in the world? While there are no official figures on the population of TCKs, a rough estimation can be made based on the number of expats in the world: 230 million!
Similarly, you may ask, what is a third culture approach?
Third Culture-Building. Casmir (1997) defines third culture as “…the construction of a mutually beneficial interactive environment in which individuals from two [or more] different cultures can function in a way beneficial to all involved” (92).
Who coined the term Third Culture Kid?
Ruth Useem first used the term after her second year-long visit to India with her fellow sociologist/anthropologist husband and three children. The term "Third Culture Kids" or TCKs was coined to refer to the children who accompany their parents into another society.
