Third Culture Kids (TCKs)
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2021
⏱️ 53 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Deservantioners, today's episode is about Third Culture Kids. |
| 0:05.0 | If you don't know what Third Culture Kids is, let me provide an explanation. |
| 0:10.6 | So there are a lot of definitions, and just to give you a little history on the definition. |
| 0:15.0 | The term Third Culture Kid was first coined by researchers John and Ruth Usim in the 1950s, |
| 0:22.0 | so it goes way back. Essentially through their research they observed |
| 0:26.0 | that there were children who spent a substantial part of their childhood in countries that |
| 0:30.4 | differ from their from their passport country, often for their parents work. |
| 0:35.4 | So in other words, you might have a kid who, due to their parents working in the military, |
| 0:41.3 | might have only spent the first couple of years of their life in say the |
| 0:46.5 | United States and then spent the majority of their |
| 0:53.0 | three-year stints in various different other countries |
| 0:56.3 | that have widely different cultures |
| 0:59.6 | than their quote-unquote passport country. |
| 1:02.2 | So they're, you know, where they're a citizen. |
| 1:05.2 | So these researchers in the 50s observed that there was this new phenomenon |
| 1:10.4 | due to globalization or the ability to travel around the world and work around the world, |
| 1:17.3 | that children were spending a good part of their |
| 1:24.0 | passport country and it and there were some commonalities among these children in that on paper |
| 1:32.4 | say say you have a kid from Wyoming, |
| 1:36.6 | but he spends two years of his life in Wyoming |
| 1:40.5 | and then five years in Korea and then three years in Brazil and then four years |
| 1:47.8 | in Africa and what does he call himself? Does he call himself an American? |
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