Defining the hybrid lifestyle: living in stereo, and high definition

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I can see many more ways to do things, many more solutions to problems, many different words for the same object or the same idea.

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How do you say…me?

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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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French ladies: how my sister and I stopped fighting by becoming foreign women

ANASTASIA ASHMAN
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Two West Coasters overcome their sibling rivalry — in a town of hippies, yippies and Beatniks — by channeling Continental ladies of leisure.

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The shelfless: expat books ‘don’t exist’

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Unsupported by the book publishing establishment, this expat publisher pushed her business idea aside for fifteen years.

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Expat images: unrecognizable vs. iconic

ANASTASIA ASHMAN
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Fleeting, picturesque moments can capture an enduring truth about expatriatism.

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Links of interest: genotype detectives, cultural creatives and expats in Hollywood

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An expat story heads to Hollywood. Cultural creatives worldwide tie their stories together in a new film. Travel back in time/around the globe, with films of bygone eras.

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Disposable liaisons of the traveling class: the questionable cultural exports of sexpats and sex pilgrims

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Hot-and-bothered globetrotters….which cultural product are sex tourists exporting?

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The dream of belonging, playing with cultural identity, and achieving a new sense of self: TurkishWIN talk

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In a live-recorded talk, I map a 15 year journey from cultural disenfranchisement to a new expat+HAREM initiative: a private, educational community for global citizens, putting theory into practice.

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Lost words: saying goodbye to mono-language

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Words collide where two languages meet. A writer finds her relationship to her native tongue has shifted, leaving blanks, holes, Turkish substitutes.

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