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	Third Culture Kid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Third Culture Kids (TCKs) is a term for children who have lived a significant portion of their lives in a country that is not their passport country, usually because of parents' work obligations.
		Third culture kids are distinguished from immigrants by that third culture kids do not expect to settle down permanently in the places that they live.
		While third culture kids usually grow up to be independent and cosmopolitan, they also often struggle with their identity and with the losses they have suffered in each move.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Third_Culture_Kid (778 words)

	Third Culture Kid -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Third Culture Kids (TCKs) is a term for children whose families move frequently, usually because of work obligations, and who have grown up in so many (A particular society at a particular time and place) cultures that they don't consider any one of them to be their "home" culture.
		According to her, a Third Culture Kid learns to cope with a new culture rather than adjust to it, becoming part of a situation and yet remaining apart from it in a certain sense.
		Their experiences among different cultures and various relationships makes it difficult for them to have indepth (Something that is communicated by or to or between people or groups) communication with those who have not experienced similar conditions.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/th/third_culture_kid.htm (388 words)

	Third Culture
		Cultural centers radiate new language; technology is a supernova of slang and idioms swelling the English language.
		In the third culture, the way to settle the question of how the mind works is to build a working mind.
		Technology now has its own culture, the third culture, the possibility culture, the culture of nerds--a culture that is starting to go global and mainstream simultaneously.
	www.alamut.com /subj/artiface/misc/thirdCulture.html (1603 words)

	CTheory.net
		To achieve cultural prominence for a theory, a theorist in a scientific or literary discipline must be proficient in the methods of both disciplines.
		That he does not shows that his work is not that of a true "third culture" but the failed attempts of a group of scientific theorists to make a coherent statement of their relationship to culture.
		His "third culture" seems like a theory-based hybrid, and even allows for interpretation and indeterminacy to be at least considered as aspects of science; but the project never strays from it disciplinary base, which is why scientists can congratulate themselves and heap scorn upon those in other disciplines.
	www.ctheory.net /text_file.asp?pick=357 (3076 words)

	TIJ Article: The Third Culture, Kevin Kelly
		While nerd culture deeply honours the rigour of the scientific method, its thrust is not pursuing truth, but pursuing novelty.
		Technology now has its own culture, the third culture, the possibility culture, the culture of nerds-a culture that is starting to go global and mainstream simultaneously.
		Kevin Kelly wrote The Third Culture for Science Magazine's "Essays on Science and Society", in celebration of the 150th anniversary of that publication.
	www.innovation.cc /discussion-papers/3rd-culture.htm (2030 words)

	International School Services - Services - Articles, News Resources - Third Culture Kids (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In summarizing that which we had observed in our cross-cultural encounters, we began to use the term "third culture" as a generic term to cover the styles of life created, shared, and learned by persons who are in the pro-cess of relating their societies, or sections there of, to each other.
		The term "Third Culture Kids" or TCK's was coined to refer to the children who accompany their parents into another society.
		The third culture of business people abroad impinges differently on the daily lives of their children than that of missionaries.
	www.iss.edu /pages/kids.html (5752 words)

	Education and language education and in Thailand
		Third culture kids (TCKs) have been around as long as families have moved around the world.
		Because Mia is aware of her own third culture, she has learned to accept other people and the prejudices that they have.
		Many third culture kids learn to accept that they are different and have found ways to express that.
	www.bangkokpost.net /education/site2003/cvmy2703.htm (2633 words)

	Third Culture Design \| About Us (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In an attempt to patch the rift between the sciences and the humanities, C.P. Snow prophesized a “third culture” would soon emerge from all the arguing and background noise.
		The third culture would bridge the gap between the sciences and the humanities, once again allowing information to flow freely between the two groups.
		Our company is called Third Culture Design, because we are members of that group of educators, facilitators, and communicators bridging communication gaps.
	www.thirdculturedesign.com /about (352 words)

	The Third Culture
		Brockman presents his notion of a third culture as an extension of C. Snow's The Two Cultures (1959), where it is observed that there exists a distinction between literary intellectuals and scientists, with the latter losing their direct link with society and the former self-assuming the role of the only intellectuals.
		The new third culture is a trend where scientists address the public directly, through popularized presentation that can be comprehended by laymen.
		The Third Culture is actually a collection of short presentations, by prominent scientists, of their achievements, interests, ideas and views.
	www.forum2.org /eran/shelf/third-culture.html (736 words)

	The Third Culture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Third Culture is a book by John Brockman which discusses the work of several well-known thinkers who are directly communicating their new, sometimes provocative, ideas to the general public.
		The title of the book refers to Charles Percy Snow's 1959 work The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution, which described the conflict between the cultures of the humanities and science.
		John Brockman, The Third Culture: Beyond the Scientific Revolution, Simon and Schuster: 1995 ISBN 0684823446
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Third_Culture (110 words)

	THE THIRD CULTURE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		C.P. Snow added to the second edition of his well known work The Two Cultures an essay suggesting with optimism that a so called third culture would emerge and fill the communication gap between the intellectuals of the arts and sciences.
		On the other hand, art, music, literature, and other cultural works do not need to be explained: they are just wonderful creations that we can enjoy and admire, or dislike, even if we know nothing about how to produce them.
		This essentially because the aims of these two cultural approaches are the opposite: arts look deep inside the mind, and try to extract from that the beauty; sciences explore the universe outside man, they try to understand it and conquer it.
	www.iac.es /gabinete/iacnoticias/winter99/24x.htm (1194 words)

	Global and Domestic Nomads or Third Culture Kids
		Many are coming to college as truly multicultural individuals, having developed a "third culture," one not entirely like either their home or host culture.
		Culture is one factor in the way a person identifies within society or within the world.
		This cultural difference allows the TCK to take parts of different host cultures, and combine them into his or her own unique value system and lifestyle (Pollock and Van Reken, 1987).
	www.colostate.edu /Depts/SAHE/JOURNAL2/2003/Stultz.htm (4137 words)

	The Third Culture - Introduction
		The third culture consists of those scientists and other thinkers in the empirical world who, through their work and expository writing, are taking the place of the traditional intellectual in rendering visible the deeper meanings of our lives, redefining who and what we are.
		Today, third culture thinkers tend to avoid the middleman and endeavor to express their deepest thoughts in a manner accessible to the intelligent reading public.
		The third theme is complexity: that the fact that the world is complex is essential and not accidental, that there's an enormous variety of things and phenomena in the world.
	www.edge.org /documents/ThirdCulture/f-Introduction.html (5112 words)

	Third Culture Kids: Returning to their Passport Country
		Because these students, who are known as Third Culture Kids (TCKs), are American citizens and often were born in the U.S., educators are not always aware of who they are, what they might need, and what special gifts they have to offer.
		Because TCKs have developed a unique culture of their own that incorporates elements of varied cultures, they often feel more at home with other TCKs, with no regard for nationality, rather than those of the passport culture (Storti, 1997).
		He noted that these students can "swim in two cultural oceans." Because of their varied experiences, the students can see life in terms greater than one cultural boundary and can explain and express themselves in more than one culture.
	www.state.gov /m/dghr/flo/rsrcs/pubs/4597.htm (1271 words)

	Big Questions: Conversations inside the Third Culture
		In 1961, C P Snow introduced the idea of the "two cultures", the scientists and the literati, divided by a lack of communication that had been crystallized through academic specialization (1).
		Thirty years later, John Brockman unveiled the Third Culture as the new face of intellectual life, consisting of scientific thinkers who had ousted the traditional literary scholars in "rendering visible the deeper meanings of our lives, redefining who and what we are" (2).
		It is in bridging this gap that we see the power behind the enterprise of the Third Culture, which, contrary to Brockman's puzzling portrayal of it as predominantly scientific, draws a large number of its members from the humanities and social sciences.
	serendip.brynmawr.edu /biology/b103/f03/web3/s1poon.html (1462 words)

	Engaging the Third Culture: Johnson, Phillip
		The Third Culture is a collection of taped interviews with 23 scientists, many of whom are clients of Brockman's agency, about their own scientific theories, about what they think of each other, and above all about their common ambition to be recognized as the true intellectual leaders of modern culture.
		Snow predicted the emergence of a "third culture" of scientists capable of communicating with non-scientific intellectuals, but Brockman's authors intend to replace the literary intellectuals rather than to cooperate with them.
		From the point of view of those of us who want to know whether the non-existence of a designer is supported by evidence, as opposed to mere philosophical presupposition, the degree of support for a specific mechanism for generating adaptive complexity is all-important, and the evidentiary difficulties of the Darwinian scenario are highly significant.
	www.arn.org /docs/johnson/brockman.htm (1453 words)

	LEADER Magazine: Third-Culture Kids
		Children like Hope, who spend a significant part of their developmental years in a culture different than the culture in which their parents were raised, are known as Third-Culture Kids (TCKs) or global nomads.
		The term "third culture" was originally developed in the early 1960s by Drs.
		Ruth and John Useem to define the experience of people who live between two cultures and, over time, feel distant from both their culture of origin—often referred to as their "passport country"—and the country in which they reside.
	www.girlscouts.org /for_adults/leader_magazine/2004_winter/third_culture_kids.asp (967 words)

	Welcome to the XXV International Congress of Applied Psychology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The third culture is characterized by trust, respect, cooperation, long time perspective, and win-win strategy, a culture different from either Chinese traditional culture or the overseas' business culture.
		The best timing and focus for developing a third culture is dependent upon contingencies such as leadership cultural diversity, business development phase, leadership team relationship, and conflict management strategy.
		A general model of the third culture principle is built up with implications to enhancing leadership team competence and effectiveness (The studies were supported by the CNSF grants of No. 70071050 and No. 39870247 and the GRC grant).
	www.iaapsy.org /25icap/common/OP7.htm (252 words)

	Living Abroad: Third Culture Kids
		Children like Peters and Doherty are sometimes referred to as “Third Culture Kids” (TCKs), a term coined by Dr. Ruth Hill Useem, Professor Emeritus at the Michigan State Univ. Institute for International Studies and a pioneer researcher in the experiences of internationally mobile children.
		A third of TCKs established their own companies, a reflection of the tendency of the group to be independent, flexible, creative, risk-takers.
		Adult TCKs actively seek ways to expose their children to the world’s range of countries and cultures and purposely teach and model the valuable and enduring message that differences among people are cause for celebration, exploration, and respect.
	www.transitionsabroad.com /publications/magazine/0009/third_culture_kids_research.shtml (1213 words)

	Wired 3.08: Agent of the Third Culture
		The Third Culture, published by Simon & Schuster, is a book of dialogs with two dozen premier scientists.
		Wired: You write in your introduction to The Third Culture that literary intellectuals are "reactionary and quite often proudly (and perversely) ignorant" of science, an attitude that has pushed science into cultural invisibility in the last few generations.
		Phil Leggiere (philguy@echonyc.com) is a cultural and political critic and journalist living in Hoboken, New Jersey.
	www.wired.com /wired/archive/3.08/brockman.html?person=richard_dawkins&topic_set=wiredpeople (855 words)

	"The Third Culture" on the Edge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Snow's 1959 book The Two Cultures presents a reading of intellectual history which argues, in part, that twentieth-century literary intellectuals attempted to commandeer the title of intellectual from the scientists, delegitimatizing scientists as men and women of letters and attempting to exclude them from the intellectual mainstream.
		Snow eventually came round to the view (presented in his 1963 essay "The Two Cultures: A Second Look") that a "third culture" would emerge, fusing the old dual cultures and placing the literary and the scientific on co-equal terms, communicating and cross-fertilizing each other.
		However, while employing Snow's "third culture" phrase, Edge, under the leadership of founder John Brockman, takes the view that the dominant intellectual culture today is maginalized and "increasingly reactionary." Post-modern intellectuals, says Brockman, are "quite often proudly (and perversely) ignorant of many of the truly significant intellectual accomplishments of our time.
	www.suite101.com /articles/article.cfm/5218 (388 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: Third Culture Kids: The Experience of Growing Up Among Worlds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The insights are sound and research-based; the advice is practical and has far-reaching potential; and the personal stories by scores of people who grew up in a culture "not their own" offer a richness of understanding regarding the internal world and extensive experience of third culture kids.
		As an adult TCK myself, the most gratifying - and reassuring - part of reading "Third Culture Kids" was finding out that there are so many others who have encountered the same difficulties, shared the same joys and have come out of a TCK childhood with very similar experiences to mine...
		This book is essential reading for all parents bringing up children in a culture other than their own.It has excellent practical guidelines on how to prepare children for a cross culture experience and perhaps even more important for returning to their 'home culture' (parent's home culture).
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/1857882954 (1073 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Third Culture : Beyond the Scientific Revolution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Structured in interview format, The Third Culture consists of 23 noted scientists discussing their theories, the nature of scientific inquiry, and their common desire to be recognized as today's intellectual leaders.
		I found that 'The Third Culture' was a logical and plausible explanation of integral facets of existence and that it explored science in such a way that it LIVED.
		The third culture that the author points to is a motley crew of scientists and philosophers, who are paraded as evidence of the new intellectual who reaches to the common man, through accessible texts.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0684823446?v=glance (2557 words)

	Portal for Work Abroad, Study Abroad, Overseas Cultural Travel and Living (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Tim Leffel draws from his experience working abroad and interviews others to illustrate how taking the plunge and living as a local is often the best path to interesting and fulfilling work overseas.
		Dos and Don'ts in France, describes the tact and cultural insight necessary to live and work abroad successfully.
		Rob Sangster immerses himself in the life and politics of an ancient land which is working to become a cultural travel destination.
	transitionsabroad.com /publications/.../0105/thirdculturekids.shtml (1968 words)

	Third Culture Kids (TCKs)
		Third Culture Kids (TCKs) is a term for children who live in a high-mobility world and grow up in two or more cultures, usually because of parents' work obligations.
		She and her husband (Useem and Useem) studied children who grew up in the third culture (including their own children) and termed them simply ‘third culture kids.’ That was later abbreviated to TCKs.
		They define a third culture kid as “a person who has spent a significant part of his or her developmental years outside the parents’ culture.
	xchildrenofgod.xfamily.org /viewtopic.php?t=368 (2548 words)

	Third Culture Kids
		Take it easy and just enjoy what you are going through and remember there are a millions of other people who have never left their own countries who would do anything to go through what you are about to go through.….
		If you keep an open mind about the culture you're going to, and bear in mind that there is something to be learned from every culture on Earth, then you will find your overseas experience really rewarding.
		The kids that have the most difficult time adjusting to life overseas are those who feel that their country is the best and everyone else is inferior.
	www.k12teachoverseas.com /html/kids.html (1259 words)

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