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Immigration immunity

Does just being an expat earn you a badge of tolerance toward other cultures — all of a sudden? [...]

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August 18th, 2010 | Tags: ancestry, Britain, colonization, emigrant, emigration, Figen Çakır, global citizen, immigrant, immigration, native, nativist, persecution, privilege, refuge, refugee, tolerance, tribal, tribe, United Kingdom, United States, war | Category: community, culture, history, home, identity, multicultural, origin, society, taboo | View Comments

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

Death at a distance

When you live a global life, how do you cope with death-at-a-distance?
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July 28th, 2010 | Tags: absence, burial, Catherine Yigit, death, death rite, disconnect, distance, Dublin, expat, expat+HAREM series, funeral, grief, grieving, Ireland, Irish, memorial, mourner, mourning, ritual, wake, William Butler Yeats | Category: community, culture, family, home, psychic limbo | View Comments

Expat. Immigrant. Assimilant.

This American resident of Istanbul with Turkish citizenship may be fluent in Turkish but she can’t describe herself in any language. [...]

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July 7th, 2010 | Tags: acceptance, American, assimilation, Cherry Coke, citizen, citizenship, emigration, expat, fluency, immigrant, immigration, Istanbul, late-comer, limbo, normality, Target, tipping point, Turkey, Turkish, Valerie Taşıran | Category: American culture, community, home, identity, origin, psychic limbo, self-image | View Comments

Solstice reading: June newsletter

Good time to explore the whole new world of a good book about the world. (Or a title about staying home — ‘the staycation’.) [...]

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June 9th, 2010 | Tags: book suggestions, booklist, culture war, expat+HAREM newsletter, Father's Day, global values, globetrotting, hybrid life, intuitive human ethics, Kindle, Longitude Books, midsummer, moral foundation, morality, multitasking, Peter Adams, reading list, solstice, staycation, time-bending, vicarious exploration | Category: American culture, borderlands, career, community, culture, history, home, identity, memoir, 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

The in-country expat

Without leaving your country, you can become an expat. When I left my hometown in Québec province I found myself wading through Canado-British culture. [...]

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May 12th, 2010 | Tags: Britain, British, Canada, Canadian identity, capital city, Catalyst, Catholic, cheek kisses, Distinct Society, France, Francophile, Francophone, French, immigrant, Latin, M.D. Benoit, minority nationalism, Mont-Laurier, national identity, Ottawa, provincial, Québec, Québécoise, regionalism, social strictures | Category: community, home, identity, multicultural, origin, psychic limbo | 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

Colour me culture

Why is Martha Stewart unpopular in Europe? The question raises cultural hackles at a design blog run by an American in Germany. [...]

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March 31st, 2010 | Tags: Blue Peter, branding, Britain, British, celebrity, convict, crafting, criminal, cult of personality, cultural disconnect, Decor8, design, design blog, design conference, Diana Brennan, Europe, European, expat+HAREM series, Figen Çakır, frugality, German, Germany, Holly Becker, home arts, INDABA, interior decorating, interior design, Martha Stewart, recycling, self promotion, South Africa, South African, Swede, Swedish, UK, United Kingdom | Category: community, home, identity, origin, self-image | View Comments

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