Third Culture. No Culture. Best Culture
From Israel to Hong Kong, to Thailand, and many other places. As a child of an expat of Moroccan and French parents. She has built her career by bridging networks all across the world, and now as the managing editor of Prestige Magazine Thailand, Ms Sienna De L’Orpaz is a pretty big deal. With a myriad of separate backgrounds and wildly different cultures, it’s hard to pinpoint Ms De L’Orpaz’s first culture. With such a rich history of “settling down” in a lot of different places, all of these cultures Ms De L’Orpaz has been exposed to eventually built a conglomerate of all the cultures combined into one. This is where third cultures begin. Ms De L’Orpaz says it’s no culture. I think it’s best culture. Now I’m not a TCK in any sense. Both my parents and I grew up in the same city, so with this blog post, I aim to compare the differences in building identity between me, a non-TCK, and Ms De L’Orpaz. Building from the ground up Constructing identity is a lot like playing an RPG or a...