welcome to our new social+ORDER

at the cross+ROADS ... places of hybrid identity + psychic limbo

common interest + experience defines us better than geography, nationality -- or even blood

*this is where we live*

call it neo+CULTURE

American culture (25)
borderlands (6)
career (16)
community (42)
culture (45)
Expat Harem concept (5)
family (16)
friendship (9)
global niche (17)
harem (4)
history (23)
home (23)
identity (72)
memoir (7)
multicultural (14)
origin (27)
psychic limbo (6)
self-image (32)
society (39)
taboo (12)
women (17)

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What kind of global citizen are you?


Born that way, always been


Schooled abroad


Lived abroad


Worked abroad


Traveler


Interested in a wider world


All of the above


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New year's evolution

New year’s resolutions are often based on what we already know, yet surprising facets of ourselves are evoked by novel situations. Our metamorphosis chooses us. This is especially true in the blogosphere. [...]

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Mapping the imagination

Moving abroad and having to live in a world she only imagined, a mapmaker’s art changes. [...]

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Same river, never twice

What do you miss most about your home country? The solid reality of family and places — or an atmosphere long since vanished? [...]

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Nostalgic baggage

If each tiny, agile step forward is a step away from something else — guaranteed not to be there forever, trustily waiting for our return– we need to consider with extra care where we’re headed and when we choose to go. [...]

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Change of direction

A fashion designer leaves the exploitation business. [...]

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A new lyricism

An American in China discovers her new expat persona — lyrical, and feisty — offers the freedom to redefine who she is and what she wants to be. [...]

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Shophouse talk

Penang’s shophouses embodied the equatorial island’s melange of cultures and its exotic mercantile history. How does architecture influence your understanding of a place, its people and history? [...]

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