http://www.mythailanddiary.com/170/tcks-not-wanting-to-be-diffrent-yet/ This is my journal of living in Thailand Sun, 12 Oct 2008 11:14:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1 http://www.mythailanddiary.com/170/tcks-not-wanting-to-be-diffrent-yet/#comment-121 Preya Tue, 30 Aug 2005 06:10:19 +0000 http://www.mythailanddiary.com/170/tcks-not-wanting-to-be-diffrent-yet/#comment-121 Yeah, I think it really depends on what "scale" you happen to be functioning at. I mean, when I am abroad I say I'm an "American" but when I'm in America I say I'm "half Indian" or that I "grew up overseas." I think TCK's who don't identity themselves as TCK's feel lost unless they try to fit in when they go "home" but after I developed a TCK identity, I didn't feel the need to be like everyone else as much. It's still hard though. I actually just wrote a post about beginning of the semester introductions and how that can be hard on me as a TCK. Yeah, I think it really depends on what “scale” you happen to be functioning at. I mean, when I am abroad I say I’m an “American” but when I’m in America I say I’m “half Indian” or that I “grew up overseas.” I think TCK’s who don’t identity themselves as TCK’s feel lost unless they try to fit in when they go “home” but after I developed a TCK identity, I didn’t feel the need to be like everyone else as much. It’s still hard though. I actually just wrote a post about beginning of the semester introductions and how that can be hard on me as a TCK.

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