TCK Voices
You’re not in this alone. Hear other TCKs relate to your struggles and triumphs in this monthly interview series.
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TCK Voices: How Canada Has Shaped My Identity
One would think that being a part of several cultures would bring more variety to one’s experience, but sometimes it has the effect of cancelling out everything about all the cultures instead …
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TCK Voices: Adapting to New Cultures
One of the hardest things about being a TCK is that I don’t (and can’t) behave the way people expect me to based on my outward appearance. People tend to expect me to behave like the stereotypical American, and I just can’t, because I am mostly Asian on the inside …
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TCK Voices: On Being Isolated
Being so culturally and linguistically isolated from the people around me, and so physically separate from my friends, has not been easy. But through it, I have learned to lean on God in my loneliness…
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TCK Voices: Moving Beyond My Comfort Zone
We as TCKs have so much to offer. Yes, we all have been through so much – goodbyes, culture shock, change…
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TCK Voices: Waiting Two Years to Go Back to China
A couple of the hardest things are the feeling of being stuck between two worlds and not being able to have a constant group of friends with you in person.
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TCK Voices: English and French in Cameroon, Africa
The hardest thing about being a TCK for me is the lack of true friendships. When you don’t live in your passport country, you can’t always relate to the people you are working with. And time zones make communication with friends overseas really, really hard.
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TCK Voices: A PK in Dubin, Ireland
There are TCKs who live remotely from other people. They feel discouraged and lonely for friends…
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TCK Voices: The Pandemic Through the Experiences of a TCK
Right after we arrived in America, lockdowns started. It was a pretty tough time for my whole family – being away from my dad, finally being back where our friends lived but unable to see them.
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TCK Voices: And Then We Moved To…
As a child, I struggled to acknowledge my losses, so I ended up suppressing most of my emotions. In my early teens and after my first repatriation, I struggled with identity and belongingness as I couldn’t fit into my birth country…
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TCK Voices: An American-at-Heart South African
I’ve really struggled to make friends over the years. Because I’ve moved around a lot, there are very few people I know well enough to be good friends with. And most of my friendships are long-distance, which takes a lot of energy and commitment to keep up…
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TCK Voices: Only God Truly Knows Me
Being a TCK has pushed me closer to God than I could have imagined. At times, in the moving and the whirlwind of new faces, it has felt like God is the only being who truly knows me. The only one who wants to know me…
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