Growing up with interculturality: SIETAR Polska TCK (Third Culture Kid) series with Cynthia Green
Time Limit: 45 – 60 min including welcome and wrap-up
No recording.
Why TCKs (Third Culture Kids) Matter Today
Families move. Careers move. Cultures intersect. New forms of belonging emerge. Growing up in this context is reshaping childhoods, identities and working lives across Europe and around the world.
Traditionally, the term Third Culture Kid (TCK) has been used to describe young people who spend part of their developmental years moving temporarily between cultures and countries. Today, the term is often used more broadly by people who grow up influenced by more than one culture.
As mobility, migration, intercultural relationships and global careers become increasingly common, these experiences are becoming more relevant to families, schools, workplaces and communities.
This series offers a space to explore these experiences together through dialogue, reflection and shared learning.
Speaker: Cynthia Green is a writer, speaker and researcher exploring how cultural influences shape identity across the life course and across generations. A Third Culture Kid who grew up in Latin America and Asia, Cynthia later lived and worked internationally as an expatriate. Her work combines lived experience with history, fiction, cultural analysis and interdisciplinary research.
She is co-author of the 4th edition of Third Culture Kids: Growing Up Among Worlds, author of the novel Blue Feet Monsoon, and has published more than one hundred articles on culture, identity and history. Her current work explores multigenerational plural-culturality and the experience of living simultaneously with plural cultures throughout life and across generations.
