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Great White People Book Club

Global thinkers must navigate and find a way to bridge worlds that might make only a sinister kind of sense. [...]

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August 11th, 2010 | Tags: assumption, Authentic Organizations, author, book club, books, bookselling, bookstore, Catherine Bayar, Catherine Yigit, cosmopolitanism, cross pollination, CV Harquail, Danah Boyd, Developing Jen, Dialogue2010, discrimination, Elmira Bayraslı, Ethan Zuckerman, expat+HAREM founder, expat+HAREM founder series, Facebook, global thinker, group replacement test, Hybrid Ambassadors, hybrid life, imaginary cosmopolitanism, Indian, Internet, Jenny Stefanotti, Judith van Praag, like-minded microcosm, Lori Tharps, marginalize, Michelle Tripp, Ning network, offensive, online, prejudice, publisher, publishing, race relations, racism, Rose Deniz, segregation, self-tanner, sexism, sexist, Sezin Koehler, SheWrites, skin color, skin whitening cream, Substitute Me, Tara Ağacayak, TEDWomen, virtual, White people, word of mouth, writer, writing, xeno-confusion, xenophile, xenophilia | Category: community, culture, global niche, history, home, identity, multicultural, origin, psychic limbo, self-image, society, taboo, women | View Comments

Supraculture: August newsletter

Name-calling and finding our true neighborhood. Hints for a soundtrack of placelessness. A great new voice exploring the existential anxiety of being people like us. [...]

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August 1st, 2010 | Tags: 11/11/11/, 11ElevenProject, Amna Ahmad, Burning Man, cultural assimilation, Dialogue2010, Dutch, existential anxiety, expat+HAREM newsletter, geoagnostic, hybridology, internationalism, Judith van Praag, nomadology, nudists, Perceptive Travel, placeless internationalism, Pragmatic Hybrid, skateboarders, supraculture, TEDGlobal, tipping point, Tuareg, world burgers, world music | Category: American culture, Expat Harem concept, borderlands, community, culture, global niche, history, home, identity, multicultural, self-image, society | View Comments

Cool: July newsletter

How we imagine our global viewpoint is created. The continuity (or ooh, disconnect!) of the way we behave. Track game-changing rock star brainiacs. [...]

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July 5th, 2010 | Tags: Annie Lennox, boo-yah, brainiac, Disqus, expat+HAREM newsletter, LinkedIn, lived abroad, Oxford, retronaut, risky behavior, schooled abroad, TED, TED conference, TED talks, TEDGlobal, Twitter, what kind of global citizen are you, worked overseas | Category: community, culture, global niche, history, identity, origin, self-image, society | View Comments

What's a global niche?

When we discover our psychic peers and global community – fashioning a hybrid identity that honors the many worlds we belong to — we’ve found our global niche. [...]

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May 15th, 2010 | Tags: Anastasia Ashman, citizen of the world, coinage, coined term, cultural psychology, culture amphibian, digital citizen, expat+HAREM series, global being, global community, global identity crisis, global nomad, globalization, hybrid soul, iconoclast, identity crisis, international study, international work, lifehack, lifestyle design, liminal, lingo, LIP, location-independence, location-independent, mobile progressive, neoculture, psychic, psychic location independence, psychic peers, psychic solution, search engine optimization, self actualization, sense of self, SEO, subculture, Third Tribe, tribe, unbounded, unconventional, unmapped | Category: Expat Harem concept, borderlands, career, community, family, global niche, home, identity, multicultural, origin, psychic limbo, self-image | View Comments

Stranger in your own land

Most expats are lucky to be identity adventurers by choice. What happens when you’re born a stranger to your nation? [...]

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April 21st, 2010 | Tags: Aegean, assimilation, California, Catherine Salter Bayar, citizen of the world, ethnic divide, expat+HAREM series, globalization, identity adventurer, Kurd, Kurdish, nationality, Native American, Southeastern Turkey, TCK, Third Culture Kid, tourism, tribe, Turk, Turkey, Turkish, Utopia | Category: career, community, global niche, identity, multicultural, origin, self-image | View Comments

Downdrafts and uplifts

An Irishwoman weighs the dream of life versus the reality, versus the dream of making it happen nonetheless. [...]

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April 14th, 2010 | Tags: accomplishment, Catherine Yigit, cultural peers, dream, dreams, entrepreneurship, expat+HAREM series, expectation, Helen Keller, home-sickness, Irish, lifestyle, limbo, realities, reality, soul, spirit, spreading wings | Category: Expat Harem concept, career, community, family, global niche, home, identity, self-image | View Comments

Floating and free-falling

They say your shoes will eventually fit if you keep wearing them. This Japanese Third Culture Kid tried to live his life like that. [...]

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March 17th, 2010 | Tags: anchor, cultural context, engineer, Isao Kato, Japan, Japanese, Laowai, lifestyle mimicry, Malta, Mediterranean, Overseas Chinese, regret, Taiwan, work-life balance | Category: career, community, global niche, home, identity, origin, self-image | View Comments

Cultural jet lag

“Iranian by birth, French by citizenship and American by residence” is how my grandfather encapsulated 10-year old me. What does that make my daughter? [...]

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March 3rd, 2010 | Tags: American, Anglo-Saxon, child-rearing, childhood, children, citizenship, England, Farsi, France, French, Gallic, Hilda Saffari, Iranian, Kuwaiti, London, melting pot, Middle Eastern, motherhood, nationality, Pakistani, Pledge of Allegiance, Saffron and Blueberry, Saudi Arabia, Swedish, terrorist, Third Culture Kid, United Kingdom, United States, values | Category: community, family, global niche, identity, multicultural, origin, self-image | View Comments

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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February 3rd, 2010 | Tags: arranged marriage, aunt, Boğazıçı University, boyfriend, Brooklyn, conservative, discussion, Elmira Bayraslı, emigrant community, expat+HAREM series, grandmother, Istanbul, language, love, modernity, mother, progress, progressive, sexual mores, tradition, virginity, young women | Category: community, family, global niche, home, identity, origin | View Comments

Push-me pull-you loyalty

A British-born woman of mixed ethnicity is torn between loyalties to her country of birth and others her family is tied to. [...]

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January 29th, 2010 | Tags: Brit, Britain, citizenship, England, expat, expatriate, Figen Çakır, geography, global citizen, Greek Orthodox, Italian, Kuşadası, loyalty, Margaret Thatcher, stereotype, Turkey, United Kingdom, White Russian | Category: borderlands, community, family, global niche, home, identity, multicultural, origin, self-image | View Comments

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