Growing Up With A Global Mindset
by Seline Shenoy
FIFTY YEARS AFTER THE TERM WAS COINED FOR A SMALL GROUP OF EXPATS, THEIR NUMBERS HAVE SURGED AND THEIR “GLOBAL MINDSET” SEEMS MORE RELEVANT THAN EVER.
It was the mid-1980s when Ruth Van Reken, who had been trained as a nurse, become interested in an obscure but personally resonant description of American children raised overseas: Third Culture Kids. Van Reken had grown up between the U.S. and Nigeria. As an adult in her 30s, she kept a journal to reflect on how that experience shaped her life, which is when she began to delve more deeply into the idea of Third Culture Kids, or TCKs.
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