Well spoken!
How many times have you had that question? I think this topic has been done again and again. But I think the reason that it’s been covered so many times by third culture kids and global nomads is because it happens so frequently in our lives, and it always takes us 20 times longer to answer the question than anyone else. And we either feel uncomfortable or arrogant in answering the question.
I think we (TCKs) all have that little 1 minute speech memorized by now. I don’t know about you, but I’m constantly trying to shorten it. Because I just always feel that it sounds so pompous: “My dad is French; my mom is Belgian. But I’ve never lived in either of those countries. I was born in Tokyo, moved to Dusseldorf, Johannesburg, Vienna, Hamburg and then did my undergrad in the US.” And I have no desire to…
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