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Connecting further with a home

June 10th, 2008 · 3 Comments

This weekend, I was putting in some grad student time (which one might call overtime if one had a job) with a colleague and friend who is trying to have their thesis done in two weeks. Afterwards, we ended up going to fly a fish kite in an empty lot on a little hill surrounded by mostly […]

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Tags: Betweening · Third Culture

Missing Old Homes

June 1st, 2008 · 1 Comment

China has been in the news a lot lately, and for some reason I’m missing 北京 (Běijīng) something fierce. I’m meeting a friend for drinks tonight, and I desperately want to go to 三里屯 (Sānlǐtúnr). I want to walk out into the 北京 (Běijīng) night into my safe, familiar third culture world. I […]

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Tags: Betweening · Cultural Marginalization · Distant Proximities · Third Culture

Integration help for Sweden

April 1st, 2008 · 1 Comment

If anyone is interested in integrating themselves into Sweden (Herculean task, I must admit), reading Mig äger ingen by Åsa Linderborg will tell you very, very much about the Swedish people. It is a very well-written book and Linderborg won ABF’s literature prize in 2007 for it. Mig äger ingen is her autobiography of her […]

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San Francisco is mine

March 31st, 2008 · No Comments

I wandered around Chinatown alone. I almost cried in the first store I walked into there, because it was almost like walking into China. I walked up Nob Hill by mistake. I saw the sea lions cuddle up to each other at night. I ate with friends across from The Stinking Rose. I had cappucino […]

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Tags: Betweening · Travel

I have returned home

March 25th, 2008 · No Comments

I’m back in Hotelland. I’m at a conference and staying at the conference hotel, the San Fransisco Marriott. (In line with being a typical TCK, I am becoming highly educated by getting a PhD in materials science and engineering.) Last night, I sat in the bar on the top floor looking out at the San […]

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Tags: Affirmative Global · Betweening · Distant Proximities · Global Culture · Third Culture · Travel

PAL vs NTSC strikes again

March 20th, 2008 · 3 Comments

I am visiting my parents at the moment, and while I’m here I thought it might be a nice idea of do some 太极拳 (tàijíquán) with my mother, since we learned in the same context. She bought some 太极拳 (tàijíquán) VCDs in China, and we were going to watch them and follow the instructions to […]

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Tags: Betweening · China · Distant Proximities

Global Business & Global Perspectives

March 8th, 2008 · No Comments

Indra Nooyi, CEO of PepsiCo, is using her global, cosmopolitan outlook to both make the world a better place and money, says CNN Money. This woman is fantastic. Not only has she made it to the top as a woman of color/foreigner relative to the United States, she might get a US government post (Haha! […]

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Tags: Affirmative Global · Betweening

Differences between cultures.. or lack thereof

February 13th, 2008 · No Comments

My psychology of culture textbook tells me if you consider a culture to include all individual variations within the culture, cultural differences disappear. For example, the differences between Japanese and American culture disappear. Maybe that’s why it’s so easy as a TCK to take a part of a culture that you like and use that […]

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Tags: Betweening · Cultural Marginalization · Third Culture

Visualization of the third culture

January 21st, 2008 · No Comments

A visualization popped into my head late last night of the culture networks I wrote about in my previous post, and it wants to get out. So here it is.
Two culture networks within a bicultural person

Blue circles are cultural ideas from the blue culture. They are connected to each other to make a network of […]

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Culture differences do change non-social parts of your brain as well

January 17th, 2008 · 1 Comment

While reading worldculturenet, I saw a link from Greg Helden’s blog discussing a Stanford-MIT-University of New York at Stony Brook study that shows differences in how visual information is processed in Americans and East Asians. (The MIT press release can be found here. The reference for those of you with access is Hedden, T., Ketay, […]

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