While you're waiting for the film to come out, here's another clip of a TCK story... "Finding Center" in the anthology The Chalk Circle: Intercultural Prizewinning Essays" (available in print and Kindle, Spring 2012) Thank you for creating this film!!!
there's a vashti bunyan song that goes "suddenly now, i know where i belong- it's many hundred miles and it won't be long." if your interpretation of this line invigorates your wanderlust, u'r a fucking tourist, if it makes you cry, you're a tck. bv there's always some naive hope that home is just a plane ride away, but in fact -no matter what- youre *always* at least a couple hundred miles from where you wish you were, at any give time.
being a tck means being part of global mobile capitalist elite. our advantage over the sheep is our ability to escape socio-political problems and to hide our assets from taxes where ever we go. let's not kid ourselves. our host countries never welcomed us at the least, despised us at its worst, try your best never to be pressured into helping anybody because of a yearning to gain acceptance, instead, make as much fucking money as you can and enjoy your privilege
I'm writing my thesis on TCK's (and am one myself), I encourage all who are interested to participate in my surveys to help me with my research. Help me graduate! Visit my facebook event page (Expat Brats/Third Culture Kids/Missionary Kids needed!) for more information and a link to the surveys.
This is great. This immediately made the obvious obvious. Always so hard to relate with people and always feeling like an outsider trying to assimilate into someone else's cuture and way of life. I was born in PR, lived in 7 U.S. states, Costa Rica, Paraguay, Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay. I'm glad to know there are so many others like me in a world where it seems like we're the only ones.
My life story. Born in the states moved to australia when i was three left when i was 10 moved to the philippines then moved to china but went to a korean school in the philippines :)
very good video. i agree mostly with the second half of this video, the positive part of being a TCK. my home is all over the world, and a lot of my friends would agree. thank you for posting this! :)
Congratulations to this promising film with such beautiful imagery and intimate interviews. I am looking forward to seeing the entire work!! I am a TCK doing something similar, maybe we could connect sometime? I teach TCK kids, aged 14, how to make films, while the subject of the film is their multicultural heritage and lives as TCKids. I'm sending you a trailer. CONGRATULATIONS ON MAKING A FILM WE ALL NEED! Thank you for doing this work!!! Many blessings to you. Love, Ritti Soncco
My parents are missionaries, and I moved to diferent countries and also inside of each of this diferent countries.
Im still looking for a place where I can say "Its mine", and where I can fit as a person IN a society. In a way is moving too much means intability, and probably just when I marry or when I find a fix house I may start to belong somewhere... but I will never know.
@Eyelash85 . Me too. I am a MK (Doug Gulleson) born (Kediri, East Java) and raised in Indonesia for 19 years. Graduated from the Jakarta International School in 1986.
So glad to meet up with other TCKs and MKs. We are totally blessed to see the globe through the clouds instead of through lines drawn up by governments. Cheers.
I'm just in tears watching this, so many times you think that you're the only one experiencing! I totoally agree ' Adonvara' !
I don't know if there are more people, but it also feels painfull to read or watch about this subject. It's like I don't want to face it!
I've moved 12 times, not even always to different countries, just 3. (1 I can't remember, was just born there) But that's allready enough to feel ' this' way.
This video thrilled me so much. I'm glad our community is getting this kind of recognition, and I absolutely cannot wait to see it. Everything discussed spoke so closely to me, specifically the part about making friends quickly with the assumption that you won't be friends for long...
I love being a TCK and wouldn't trade my experiences for anything, even though sometimes it's frustrating not knowing where 'home' is.
This is me... I've lived all over the world... been to 22 countries and counting... been part of 12 different school systems (public schools, private schools, home school, boarding school... and the list goes on). I both love and fear the question "where are you from". On one hand, it's an chance to show someone a little of who I am, and on the other there's this huge wall... like they'll never truly understand me. Thanks for this video... It's good to know there's more to us than just me :)
This is me... I've lived all over the world... been to 22 countries and counting... been part of 12 different school systems (public schools, private schools, home school, boarding school... and the list goes on). I both love and fear the question "where are you from". On one hand, it's an chance to show someone a little of who I am, and on the other there's this huge wall... like they'll never truly understand me. Thanks for this video... It's good to know there's more to us than just me :)
I hold 2 passports and moved around between US and Southeast Asia. Now I'm at uni and Australia. I don't particularly identify myself with my passport countries or my parents' home countries. I still hesitate at the question Where are you from? because I don't!
I like what one lady said "home is everywhere". Thanks for posting this video up. It's always good to know that there are people out there like you! :)
It seems to me that most non-TCKs who have been lucky enough to have had meaningful, lasting connections with a place and a community in that place, are incapable of understanding what it's like to have that repeatedly taken away, with less than no understanding and no acknowledgement - on the part of those taking it away - of the disruption & grief it's causing. My parents (quite damaged individuals) kept telling me and my sister how "lucky" and "spoiled" we were. It was extremely undermining.
I am experiencing all these upheavals as an adult now. I lived in one place until I was 25 and then I moved to the US. Since then I have lived in 5 different places. Now I am 40 and been living in the same place for 7 years, but this last move has been devastating for me. I haven't been able to establish a connection to this place and make friends. I think I am getting depressed. Thank you for this movie. It really hit home and made me realize I need to do something.
Very moved by the film! I am an international school counselor, married to a TCK and have two children who are TCKs. This film captures the experience powerfully and also educates all people at the same time. My hope is to connect with the creators and to find out more ways to support the film and TCKs and ATCKs around the globe, as well as in the school where I am working (American School of Doha). With a grateful heart, Jen Hammonds
This is so wonderful! Power to the TCKs! But who wrote the poem? I want to use it and i want to give credit to its creator. is it the one who made the trailer?
I want to send this film to my friends to help them understand me. I'm an older TCK over 50 now, but I still am restless although more settled than most out of necessity. I have to travel often or I go crazy. Every time I visit a new country or place I immediately start to think "I could live here, I could get used to it, I could learn enough words in 6 months to get by", then I stop myself and laugh.
I can't wait to see this film! I am so happy that you as a filmmaker are giving us a voice! So many people don't understand the issue-- which contributes to my sense of NOT belonging!
Yeah Im a TCK. Born in Bolivia, moved to Nicaragua, Mozambique, Canada, and now the Netherlands. Been around the world in travels too. I do agree with some things on the video, particularly teh relationship part. I've realized that I have a marvelous ability to make friends, and good ones at that, in such short time because I believe it to be a necessity. 2-3 years later, I might leave or they might leave. However it does seem pretty dark. I think I am blessed to be a TCK. A lot of benefits
i'm a TCK too! I was born in france, and lived in suriname, mozambique and vietnam, and now i'm in belgium! Nice hearing other TCK stories. I'm very interested in all of this!
@shazTCK I'm trying to do your survey but the link isn't bringing me anywhere. I'd love to help you out, let me know if there is a different link, or maybe you've already collected enough data ? :)
@globalsoultv thank you so much for your encouragement! im still in university now but im definitely planning on working on one someday :) great, i cant wait to see it! it looks extremely touching and enlightening, the trailer really hits home to very core aspects of being a tck that i don't think a lot of people go through quite in the same way. especially those lines in the beginning: so perfect.
i think i accidentally deleted my comment haha. oops. anyways, this is amazing. i grew up overseas as a tck going to international schools and have always always wanted to make a film about it. still do, but im so happy to see someone else is spreading the word too! when is this being released??
I encourage you to make your own TCK film. There is something about the process of film-making that is healing and transforming. At least for me it is. The planned date for the release of the film is May 2011. I will let you know once is out! Stay in touch. aga
@globalsoultv Hello! I was wondering if there was any place where I could get the film to watch? Im hoping its out now :) I have been wondering about it and am very excited to see it!! Thank you again so much for making this
This seems to be more a bit more on the dark side of TCK. I was born in Canada and from three months on went to Brazil, Venezuela, Chile, Paraguay, Peru, Mexico, Argentina, then Spain. For those who may say it is different because they are all Spanish speaking countries. Then you are not a TCK.
You are a TCK if you spent your adolescence years in a different culture than your parents. You are a Third Cuture Kid even if you grew up in only Spanish Speaking countries. Where are you now?
@Eyelash85 There is an online community called my . tckid . com. You can browse the forums, chat with other TCK's, and search for people who have lived in the same places as you. It's really great, you should check it out!
You guys made me cry, especially when I saw the book in your hands. Discovering this changed my life... I finally could start to understand who I was. And it did the same for my sister! Thank you so much Brice for raising the awareness on the subject!
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lianeber 2 weeks ago
While you're waiting for the film to come out, here's another clip of a TCK story... "Finding Center" in the anthology The Chalk Circle: Intercultural Prizewinning Essays" (available in print and Kindle, Spring 2012) Thank you for creating this film!!!
swordfern7 3 weeks ago
there's a vashti bunyan song that goes "suddenly now, i know where i belong- it's many hundred miles and it won't be long." if your interpretation of this line invigorates your wanderlust, u'r a fucking tourist, if it makes you cry, you're a tck. bv there's always some naive hope that home is just a plane ride away, but in fact -no matter what- youre *always* at least a couple hundred miles from where you wish you were, at any give time.
ticklemehomo1 1 month ago
being a tck means being part of global mobile capitalist elite. our advantage over the sheep is our ability to escape socio-political problems and to hide our assets from taxes where ever we go. let's not kid ourselves. our host countries never welcomed us at the least, despised us at its worst, try your best never to be pressured into helping anybody because of a yearning to gain acceptance, instead, make as much fucking money as you can and enjoy your privilege
ticklemehomo1 2 months ago
my wife just started a vlog about her tck experiences
fun4meonline 2 months ago
I'm writing my thesis on TCK's (and am one myself), I encourage all who are interested to participate in my surveys to help me with my research. Help me graduate! Visit my facebook event page (Expat Brats/Third Culture Kids/Missionary Kids needed!) for more information and a link to the surveys.
mabmao2 2 months ago
This is great. This immediately made the obvious obvious. Always so hard to relate with people and always feeling like an outsider trying to assimilate into someone else's cuture and way of life. I was born in PR, lived in 7 U.S. states, Costa Rica, Paraguay, Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay. I'm glad to know there are so many others like me in a world where it seems like we're the only ones.
TheMrEstorm 3 months ago
My life story. Born in the states moved to australia when i was three left when i was 10 moved to the philippines then moved to china but went to a korean school in the philippines :)
Jourdie22 4 months ago
They say home is where you heart is.
My home is not on earth...
samuelhjung 4 months ago
Bahá'u'lláh said, “The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens”.
kusztar 4 months ago
This has been flagged as spam show
can't wait to see this!!!!
lizziefreele 5 months ago
Awesome video...thank you!! ~ Fellow TCK <3<3<3
yukomaskay 6 months ago
very good video. i agree mostly with the second half of this video, the positive part of being a TCK. my home is all over the world, and a lot of my friends would agree. thank you for posting this! :)
aydesign3 7 months ago
Congratulations to this promising film with such beautiful imagery and intimate interviews. I am looking forward to seeing the entire work!! I am a TCK doing something similar, maybe we could connect sometime? I teach TCK kids, aged 14, how to make films, while the subject of the film is their multicultural heritage and lives as TCKids. I'm sending you a trailer. CONGRATULATIONS ON MAKING A FILM WE ALL NEED! Thank you for doing this work!!! Many blessings to you. Love, Ritti Soncco
RittiSoncco 7 months ago
I just realised Im a thrird culture Kid/man.
My parents are missionaries, and I moved to diferent countries and also inside of each of this diferent countries.
Im still looking for a place where I can say "Its mine", and where I can fit as a person IN a society. In a way is moving too much means intability, and probably just when I marry or when I find a fix house I may start to belong somewhere... but I will never know.
Eyelash85 7 months ago
@Eyelash85
@Eyelash85 . Me too. I am a MK (Doug Gulleson) born (Kediri, East Java) and raised in Indonesia for 19 years. Graduated from the Jakarta International School in 1986.
So glad to meet up with other TCKs and MKs. We are totally blessed to see the globe through the clouds instead of through lines drawn up by governments. Cheers.
rajaampat1967 6 months ago
sorry, 2 times ;)
dehavertjes 7 months ago
I'm just in tears watching this, so many times you think that you're the only one experiencing! I totoally agree ' Adonvara' !
I don't know if there are more people, but it also feels painfull to read or watch about this subject. It's like I don't want to face it!
I've moved 12 times, not even always to different countries, just 3. (1 I can't remember, was just born there) But that's allready enough to feel ' this' way.
dehavertjes 7 months ago
I'm just in tears watching this, so many times you think that you're the only one experiencing! I totoally agree ' Adonvara' !
I don't know if there are more people, but it also feels painfull to read or watch about this subject. It's like I don't want to face it!
dehavertjes 7 months ago
This video thrilled me so much. I'm glad our community is getting this kind of recognition, and I absolutely cannot wait to see it. Everything discussed spoke so closely to me, specifically the part about making friends quickly with the assumption that you won't be friends for long...
I love being a TCK and wouldn't trade my experiences for anything, even though sometimes it's frustrating not knowing where 'home' is.
(if any other TCK's wanna talk, message me!)
Adonvara 8 months ago
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Adonvara 8 months ago
the lady at the end of video said it best .."its really difficult to settle down and make commitments"...story of my life
rlmadrid4life 8 months ago
tots amazing being a tck is great :LLLLLL x
yumsterLOVE 8 months ago
This is me... I've lived all over the world... been to 22 countries and counting... been part of 12 different school systems (public schools, private schools, home school, boarding school... and the list goes on). I both love and fear the question "where are you from". On one hand, it's an chance to show someone a little of who I am, and on the other there's this huge wall... like they'll never truly understand me. Thanks for this video... It's good to know there's more to us than just me :)
MissDawncyxs 9 months ago
This is me... I've lived all over the world... been to 22 countries and counting... been part of 12 different school systems (public schools, private schools, home school, boarding school... and the list goes on). I both love and fear the question "where are you from". On one hand, it's an chance to show someone a little of who I am, and on the other there's this huge wall... like they'll never truly understand me. Thanks for this video... It's good to know there's more to us than just me :)
MissDawncyxs 9 months ago
I hold 2 passports and moved around between US and Southeast Asia. Now I'm at uni and Australia. I don't particularly identify myself with my passport countries or my parents' home countries. I still hesitate at the question Where are you from? because I don't!
I like what one lady said "home is everywhere". Thanks for posting this video up. It's always good to know that there are people out there like you! :)
mxgirl918 9 months ago
Any idea when the movie's gonna come out? I'm a TCK who's lived in France, England, USA, and Canada, and I'm very excited to see this movie!
ThePhiladelphiaPhan 9 months ago
It seems to me that most non-TCKs who have been lucky enough to have had meaningful, lasting connections with a place and a community in that place, are incapable of understanding what it's like to have that repeatedly taken away, with less than no understanding and no acknowledgement - on the part of those taking it away - of the disruption & grief it's causing. My parents (quite damaged individuals) kept telling me and my sister how "lucky" and "spoiled" we were. It was extremely undermining.
TyrannySue 9 months ago
I am experiencing all these upheavals as an adult now. I lived in one place until I was 25 and then I moved to the US. Since then I have lived in 5 different places. Now I am 40 and been living in the same place for 7 years, but this last move has been devastating for me. I haven't been able to establish a connection to this place and make friends. I think I am getting depressed. Thank you for this movie. It really hit home and made me realize I need to do something.
feelingcrafty 9 months ago
Very moved by the film! I am an international school counselor, married to a TCK and have two children who are TCKs. This film captures the experience powerfully and also educates all people at the same time. My hope is to connect with the creators and to find out more ways to support the film and TCKs and ATCKs around the globe, as well as in the school where I am working (American School of Doha). With a grateful heart, Jen Hammonds
jenhammonds 10 months ago 2
Isn't it the same feeling for adults? I feel the same when we move to a different country again.
Jammanich 10 months ago
home sweet home is planet EARTH
ilafeiz 10 months ago 13
yay! more people I can connect to, any the ppl in the trailer just wen trough my life!
bubbles3006 11 months ago
Ooh! Finally a movie about us & you actually came up with a term to define folks like us : 'Third Culture Kids' ^-^
Love it! Brings back so many fond memories..no regrets in life :)
AntiMessiah2023 11 months ago
This is so wonderful! Power to the TCKs! But who wrote the poem? I want to use it and i want to give credit to its creator. is it the one who made the trailer?
racerabbit93 11 months ago
I want to send this film to my friends to help them understand me. I'm an older TCK over 50 now, but I still am restless although more settled than most out of necessity. I have to travel often or I go crazy. Every time I visit a new country or place I immediately start to think "I could live here, I could get used to it, I could learn enough words in 6 months to get by", then I stop myself and laugh.
jwalbert60 11 months ago
I can't wait to see this film! I am so happy that you as a filmmaker are giving us a voice! So many people don't understand the issue-- which contributes to my sense of NOT belonging!
kr15t1n0 11 months ago
This is really true... as a TCK I agree.
brokenandbella 11 months ago
i feel identified!! =)
magalojoles 1 year ago
Yeah Im a TCK. Born in Bolivia, moved to Nicaragua, Mozambique, Canada, and now the Netherlands. Been around the world in travels too. I do agree with some things on the video, particularly teh relationship part. I've realized that I have a marvelous ability to make friends, and good ones at that, in such short time because I believe it to be a necessity. 2-3 years later, I might leave or they might leave. However it does seem pretty dark. I think I am blessed to be a TCK. A lot of benefits
MrLelo17 1 year ago
i'm a TCK too! I was born in france, and lived in suriname, mozambique and vietnam, and now i'm in belgium! Nice hearing other TCK stories. I'm very interested in all of this!
SmilingBananah 1 year ago
Are you a TCK who has moved back to your passport country at some point during your life? If your answer is yes, please do my questionnaire!
survey.nottingham.edu.my/index.php?sid=17391&lang=en
I'm conducting this survey as part of my Final Year Research Project so I really need your help!
shazTCK 1 year ago
@shazTCK I'm trying to do your survey but the link isn't bringing me anywhere. I'd love to help you out, let me know if there is a different link, or maybe you've already collected enough data ? :)
ceuninck85 11 months ago
@globalsoultv thank you so much for your encouragement! im still in university now but im definitely planning on working on one someday :) great, i cant wait to see it! it looks extremely touching and enlightening, the trailer really hits home to very core aspects of being a tck that i don't think a lot of people go through quite in the same way. especially those lines in the beginning: so perfect.
siofanson314 1 year ago
i think i accidentally deleted my comment haha. oops. anyways, this is amazing. i grew up overseas as a tck going to international schools and have always always wanted to make a film about it. still do, but im so happy to see someone else is spreading the word too! when is this being released??
siofanson314 1 year ago 3
@siofanson314
I encourage you to make your own TCK film. There is something about the process of film-making that is healing and transforming. At least for me it is. The planned date for the release of the film is May 2011. I will let you know once is out! Stay in touch. aga
globalsoultv 1 year ago
@globalsoultv It is June of 2011, is it out yet?
auntafrica 8 months ago
@globalsoultv Hello! I was wondering if there was any place where I could get the film to watch? Im hoping its out now :) I have been wondering about it and am very excited to see it!! Thank you again so much for making this
siofanson314 1 month ago
This seems to be more a bit more on the dark side of TCK. I was born in Canada and from three months on went to Brazil, Venezuela, Chile, Paraguay, Peru, Mexico, Argentina, then Spain. For those who may say it is different because they are all Spanish speaking countries. Then you are not a TCK.
quilmes99 1 year ago 2
@quilmes99
You are a TCK if you spent your adolescence years in a different culture than your parents. You are a Third Cuture Kid even if you grew up in only Spanish Speaking countries. Where are you now?
globalsoultv 1 year ago
@quilmes99 They speak portuguese in Brazil.
Eyelash85 7 months ago
Hey, there is a kind of club or association somewhere? Where I can meet other TCKs?
Eyelash85 7 months ago
@Eyelash85 There is an online community called my . tckid . com. You can browse the forums, chat with other TCK's, and search for people who have lived in the same places as you. It's really great, you should check it out!
Adonvara 6 months ago
@Adonvara Hey, thanks a lot!!
Eyelash85 6 months ago
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siofanson314 1 year ago
what is the music title in the last of this?
budd921 1 year ago
@budd921 MIA - Airplanes or smth in that sort
HTTriLogic 1 year ago
@budd921 "Paper Planes" by M.I.A.; released in 2007
TheLastYogurt 8 months ago
You guys made me cry, especially when I saw the book in your hands. Discovering this changed my life... I finally could start to understand who I was. And it did the same for my sister! Thank you so much Brice for raising the awareness on the subject!
pointge 1 year ago 5
@pointge I am moved by your comment and I am glad the TCK stories resonated with you.
I would love to hear how finding about tcks changed your life.
globalsoultv 1 year ago