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But Mom! Where am I from?
When I was six, my son asked me, "Mom, Where do I come from? "And instead of reaching for the book of anatomy, the atlas took place. He knew that his question was prompted by the imminent international day school and not by birds or bees. "Well," he explained, "I am half Irish and half Italian, her father is English and you and your sister were born here in Dubai. "
"Although mom, but where am I?"
My son is part of a growing community of nomadic children are growing internationally. Some child psychologists refer to children as children third culture, or TCKs for short. The official definition of a TCK, also known as Trans-Culture for children, is "an individual who, having spent part significant years of development in a culture other than their parents' culture, develops a sense of connection with all cultures, although it lacks the full ownership of no. The elements of each culture are incorporated into the experience of life, but the sense of belonging is in relationship with others of similar experience. "
TCKs are usually the children of diplomats, soldiers, journalists, humanitarian workers, academics or business executives who are being raised in a culture that is between a parent native (first culture) and the country where they live (the second crop). Many TCKs living in privileged situations, with public housing and private schooling, and generally creates a space between them and the neighborhood children. As a result, TCKs tend to integrate well with each other, but never fully penetrate local culture.
Unlike immigrant children, TCKs know that their parents have no intention of staying long in the host country and have become aware of their transience. Even most know precisely the time remaining on their contracts for parents and whether these will be renewed. TCKs therefore not put the roots in a country, but in people and are attracted to, and easily associate with, others who have a similar experience.
Forging an identity when raised in such circumstances can be very complicated. When you ask children where expatriates are generally the answer to a question, or several of them. "You mean where he was born or where I live now? Or does it mean that my parents are from or where is my passport? "
Experts believe that one can not become or switch back TCK in a monocultural person. Parents of TCKs can return 'Home' to their country of origin, but the children, enhanced by having shared their lives in their formative years with others, find the characteristics of many cultures in their own being. The acceptance of this fact is the only free TCKs themselves.
A site Site dedicated to helping states TCKs and their parents who, despite his lack of a "conventional" deep, TCKs are among the most adaptable, group of persons All compassionate, but parents are key to help them feel grounded. So what can parents do to help? Tckinteract.net recommends follows: –
ü Accept your TCK so that he or she is. Recognize that career choice and location, have made his son a TCK. Know this is a good thing, and the benefits are numerous.
ü Understanding the culture of your child will be a third culture. Both you and your TCK will frustrated if you try to make your TCK as an American or German or English as you.
ü Accept and understand the experience of his son TCK. Help your child appreciate their culture passport, but also the host culture (s).
Steven Helm, a former TCK said: "Third Culture can be confused with multicultural and bicultural – but should not. Multicultural is when someone has been influenced by more than two cultures and used parts of these cultures together. Bicultural as well as multicultural, with the exception of the influence of only two cultures. Both are very different from the Third Culture. Third Culture is when a child has to be a child, living in various foreign cultures. As TCKs grow, adapt and blend with one culture after another to the point that there have been many differences, that differences do not matter more, and it becomes more important are the similarities. "
TCKs are increasingly finding comfort in numbers. Global changes, increased humanitarian assistance programs / the growth of multinational companies, embassy staff and the largest ongoing military activity – steadily increasing the number of expatriate families.
TCKs are truly exceptional people who contribute their talent and knowledge valuable to a world trying to manage diversity alone.
About the Author
Dominique has been writing for over a decade and contributes to various newspapers and magazines worldwide as well as online.
Dominique, who is an Anglo-Italian hybrid, has lived in Italy, England, the USA and spent twelve years in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates before emigrating to Australia in 2002.
She lives with her architect husband Bryn and their two teenage children and thoroughly enjoys her life Down Under in their home among the gum trees.
Writing, the Internet, travel and the theatre are all pursuits that bring her joy while her dislikes include cruelty, offal, rudeness and all of Australia’s deadly fauna!
Dominique’s quirky blog can be found at www.pomsinoz.blogspot.com.
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