"Some Third Culture Kids have nothing beyond their passports to connect them with their home country. TCKs lose and gain from the fact they grow up outside their passport country".
Third Culture Kids or TCKs are children that are creating their own sub-culture. They have only their passports to connect them with their home country. They lose and gain being a TCK but there are more advantages.
TCKs get used to live away home, so they feel the new country as their home country. For example, if you have Chinese parents, but you are living in the United States and have made friends there; you will feel USA as your home, not China. This demonstrates that TCKs actually have no relation with their real home country or just a little.
Being a TCK can bring problems, such as feeling different from others, or the sense of belonging everywhere and nowhere. But there are more advantages: they know more places and cultures, so they have more life experiences, they are more open-minded, culturally astute, cross-culturally enriched, educational achievers, observers, mature in social skills and also they can speak more than one language.
Concluding, I can say that I agree the stimulus given; there are TCKs that don’t really have a connection with their home country, because they never are there. Also they can lose and gain growing up outside their passport country, but I think that they gain more than they lose.
Book: English B, Course Companion, Oxford
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