Third Cultural Kids: Disadvantages
What
are TCK?
TCK (Third
Cultural Kid) is “a person
who has spent a significant part of his or
her developmental years outside their parents’ culture.". This means that
TCK are kids that grow outside their country; obviously this had many
advantages; but, what would happen if they came back to their original country?
They are going to had many difficulties, and this is what we are going to talk
about.
Disadvantages
of being a TCK:
As I said before, being a TCK have many advantages,
such as: high flexibility, maturity, etc. But not everything is good as it
seems because returning to your original country after many years, makes you a
little bit different from the others. Now we are going to see the challenges
that the TCK’s have their life and how they can be solved:
·
Ignorance
of home culture: TCK’s are often lacking in the knowing about their
own home country, culture, town, nation, etc., and with the current technology
leading all the information around the world, this will become increasingly
less of a challenge, providing to the TCK’s the use of modern technology with
their guest cultures that are a normal aspect in their life, and connect them
to their home culture. Everything depends on the comprehension that has a
culture with regard to the topic that they are the TCK’s. Though, to consider
as a difficulty the fact that borders itself to the TCK to entering a culture,
for the same fact that they know that it is late to enter to another one;
impeding this way the permanency of his original culture.
·
Discrimination: One
of the problems that TCK’s have is the discrimination they may suffer on the
place they move to live. This special kids are usually victims of
discrimination because they are new in the school they enter and this relates
to the country the came from, his/her origins, etc. The solution for this big
problem that would affect the development of the kid, would be to use the
knowledge he has of other cultures in order to share it with his/her new
classmates so they can understand their customs, way of being, etc.
·
Social
life: Because TCK’s are always living in to different
places, one after the other. They need to leave the friends they have in one
place because they are already moving to another country, and this means having
a new life, meet new people again, and try to do some friends. This may become TCK’s
into shy persons, and this would also him/her when they need to work in groups,
do projects, play sports, or just meet people of different places. A way to
solve this problem would be to ask for advice to their friends he/she already
made in other country so they can remember how they met.
In conclusion,
being a TCK can be something great, but also it could be a challenge, but if
you know how to manage them, everything would be good.
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