Third culture kids

Stimulus: "Some third culture kids have nothing beyond their passports to connect them with their home country. TCKs lose and gain from the fact that they grow up outside their passport country.”

 

Firstly, being a TCK doesn`t carry only bad things like the lost of a main religion, way of thinking etc, indeed they gain the benefits of being open minded. Open thinking guide the TCK to the top of the world. Most of politician TCK’s take better decisions than many other common politicians to solve problems, because they are born in one country raised in another and with the mixture of both cultures they have the capacity of solving better international issues. For example if a kid is born in a conflictive country and move right away to a peaceful one, he would have a better comprehension of the acts of the conflictive country because he lived and experienced some time of his life in there, the opposite is the common kid of the peaceful country that will only see the country from his peaceful perspective.

 

Another thing that carries to be a TCK is that they are always asking about where they belong or why he doesn't have a main culture, these are a few questions that cause existentialism in their minds since they are young. But existentialism can be considered also as an attribute for them, because while they grow up they start comprehending better the cultures that they are part of and their own culture as a product of this mixture, creating an open mind.

 

Being TCK carry loneliness since they are very young. The fact that they don’t have a concrete culture makes problems along their whole life to enter any society, at the end they only are able to be friend of open minded people or even only other TCK’s.

 


In conclusion, to be a TCK doesn’t carry completely bad characteristic, but good ones make incredible changes in societies that they are able to join. At the end, they can only feel the benefits of being an international kid after all the suffer when they are adults and experience the power of being open minded.