Tck Quotes

“TCK builds relationships to all of the cultures, while not having full ownership in any. Although elements from each culture are assimilated into the TCK’s life experience, the sense of belonging is in relationship to others of similar background.”
― David C. Pollock, Third Culture Kids: Growing Up Among Worlds

“Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and replanted for too long a series of generations in the same worn-out soil.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“All children, including TCKs, face a myriad of developmental tasks as they grow from helpless infants into healthy adults. Among them is the need to develop a strong sense of personal identity as well as group identity, answering the questions Who am I? and Where do I belong? Traditionally, the family and community mirror back the answers and the child sees his or her image reflected in them.”
― David C. Pollock

“Now I have been a resident of a small English city for four years and here even the strangers are familiar. I am settled and it is unsettling.”
― Aditi Babel, Unsettled

“I don't know where 'home' is. I don't know which place I liked best. People ask me if I felt sad to leave those schools behind: those people behind.

I have never known anything else.”
― Aditi Babel, Unsettled