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Nurturing Global Citizens: A Family’s Journey Through the World of Third Culture Kids
In an increasingly interconnected world, the concept of global citizenship has never been more important. My personal journey, intertwined with the upbringing of my children, Alexander and Elias, serves as a vivid illustration of nurturing global citizens. As a family, we have navigated the complex yet enriching path of Third Culture Kids (TCKs), a term popularized by David C. Pollock, Ruth E. Van Reken, and Michael V. Pollock to describe individuals who spend a significant part of their childhood outside their parents’ passport countries…
The Greening of SIETAR
Team behind the SIETAR Europa 2024 Congress Sustainability initiative shares their approach on making the upcoming June conference in Lille more green and climate-friendly.
Living within diversities. Cultures and new complexities. An international conference by Fondazione Intercultura. Florence, April 4-6, 2024
At a time of globalisation and of multiple cross-cultural influences how can we learn to communicate in an effective and culturally sensitive way in our complex societies? Which competencies are required? How can we face and cope with cultural uncertainty?
Are we moving towards a “liquid” concept of culture? How can young people be educated to cope with so many intertwined cultural differences within a complex society?
To answer these questions, join a conference organised by Fondazione Intercultura in the beautiful city of Florence from April 4 to 6, 2024.
Three reasons why expat jobs will never be the same
What is the future of expatriate jobs? Gabor Holch believes they will become fewer, harder and require much more specific profiles. Read the full article to find out why and what decision-makers can do about it.
Coffee with MG: Diversity in a Third Culture Life
What is it like living in a country which is distinctly different from that of your parents?
How diverse is this kind of living?
In theoretical parlance, the individuals who live through this diversity are called third culture kids (TCK) or third culture individuals (TCI). They live in a different environment during a significant part of their child development years.
They are typically exposed to a greater volume and variety of cultural influences than those who grow up in one cultural setting. The first culture of such individuals refers to the culture of the country from which their parents originated, the second culture refers to the culture in which the family currently resides, and the third culture refers to the distinct culture these individuals develop, which is generally a fusion of these cultures, – and at times third culture individuals share no connection to the first two cultures.
Coffee with MG: Diversity is Here to Stay
“Diversity is here. We need to accept and embrace it, look at it as a richness and deal with it. Dealing with diversity implies managing it, not tolerating it”.
Vanessa Barros, CEO and Cofounder Leadership CQ
Coffee with MG: Practising Diversity and Inclusion Across the Ocean
“I always tend to see more similarities than differences. I always tend to see more things that we share than our contradictions”
“Find the commonalities and emphasize them. Resolve conflicts not by force but by mutual acceptance”
Dr. Herbert Traxl, Former Austrian Ambassador
Coffee With MG… Digital, Diverse and Divided
You have not heard from me in a while for good reasons and one of them was that I was busy reading. Generally, I would have coffee or tea with a chosen guest to bring you the long and short of it. This time, I ended up having gallons of tea with a book written by our last chosen guest, David Livermore.
What gives you hope?
And while the warmth on our skin invites us to relax, an alarm clock is ticking in the back of our mind. Something is not right, something should be done about it, and we just don’t know what. So what gives you hope when it comes to climate change?
Coffee with MG and David Livermore
Meet my charming, affable guest of the month- the founder of the Cultural Intelligence Center in East Lansing, Michigan, and a visiting research fellow at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He consults with global organizations around the world, including the Harvard Business School, Google, Coca-Cola, the US Department of Defense, BMW, Qatar Airways, the United Nations, and dozens more.