The Enigma of Arrival
I’ve landed, but where am I? In German, to arrive, “ankommen,” is understood to be a longer process, one that could take days or weeks.
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Denizen’s beautiful illustrations, from our amazing illustrators
Sept. 11, 2001: Ten Years Later from Young Americans Abroad
As diplomat kids, missionary kids, corporate kids or whatever else living abroad, we were expected to represent the United States on our teenage shoulders with everything that we did. To others, we were America. To us, we were American by passport, having grown up abroad.
Speechless
Foreigner! I am in Shanghai, 12-years-old, the only white person on a Chinese basketball team, the subject of hilarity as I run the wrong way on the court, having misunderstood the instructions, related in speedy Shanghainese. Bun dan! the coach shouts at me, and my teammates giggle shrilly.
Diagram of a Third Culture Kid
This culture? That culture? A fun Denizen infographic.
Zwischenmiete
In my fourth sublet in Berlin in the past eight months, I am growing accustomed to another person’s things around me, to her life quietly insinuating itself into my own.
Liberty Globe
Tangled
Accompanies “The white lies TCKs tell”
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