3rd Culture Kids

Military children stationed overseas face unique challenges when heading to college in the States. Michelle Michael reports.

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[mtirby60]

it sucks when your parents retire in the states and you want to go back overseas.

[Maniaclaughter]

Woo:)! Third Culture Kids!

(I'm a Third Culture Kid)

[vaporosoez]

I was born in Germany... we were transferred stateside before I was a year old and we moved all over the states. Third Culture Kids also includes those whose culture is some weird thing that only military brats know... a World not civilian but not soldiers either... but more like soldiers than civilians when military is you upbringing... like church.

[mxgirl918]

@Maniaclaughter I had the same experience in 2009. I had left the US in 2001 and really had a bad case of cultural shock when I returned for uni.

[mxgirl918]

I was born in Michigan to a Malaysian dad and a Singaporean mom and hold 2 passports. Never really knew where I was from and still don't. It's hard but I love being cosmopolitan :)

[Maniaclaughter]

@fangwoman

Not starting an argument here, but it's just a matter of opinion that "it sucks because it's not America".

[Maniaclaughter]

@coutterhill

Yeah. I remember the culture shock of going back to the US. I had been living in Saudi Arabia for a long time, went to France, then back to the US where I was born.

[coutterhill]

I remember when it was AFRTS and then it changed to AFN. I was raised overseas, but still lived in the US for some of my dad's duty stations...still a culture shock when you come to stay though

[mtirby60]

lol i know those are probably the only commercials i would gladly watch.

[thedtbmister]

what about "expat kids" you know the ones who move from country to country as their parents jobs change. and 3rd culture kid does not necessarily mean being born outside the country you have a passport of. it means that you have spent a portion of your life growing up outside your native country.