TCKs are All Around

By munnerlyn

Last week a friend gave me an article from the Gulf News about TCKs here in the UAE. The article titled “Youngsters torn between cultures find a grounding in the UAE” was the third in a series about third-culture kids living in the United Arab Emirates. This article reminded me how rich this topic remains as new countries examine and try to better understand their own TCKs. When the term “third-culture kid” was first introduced, the research base was primarily American missionary and military children living abroad with their parents. Today, with the flattening of the world- there are TCKs from everywhere, living everywhere. If you believe, as I do that TCKs really are an “untapped natural resource” then the question becomes which nation will be smart enough to tap them?