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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Inside outsider

When a longtime expat in Prague takes a photo course she cannot pretend to be Czech — and gains respect for the tourists which throng her city’s streets. [...]

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Being grounded is overrated

By putting some distance between me and my center of gravity, I have room to be in a wider orbit around the inner me. [...]

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Senso unico

A serial expat reflects on how her expatriatism has changed through place, and over time. [...]

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Self mute

Loving to communicate is not the same thing as communicating well. Nor does it mean that communication comes easily. [...]

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How do you say...me?

A Brit in the Netherlands finds a foreign language is a hurdle to being true to herself in her relationships with locals, family and friends. [...]

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Frozen roots

When a Turk raised in a conservative Brooklyn emigrant community studies in Istanbul she realizes progress comes from a community, not a location. [...]

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