Unlikely associations: is it a sell-out to socialize with insiders?

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Sometimes this expat has felt like a duplicitous sell-out for socializing with people she normally would not.

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Great (avatar) expectations: who decides our best look?

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What do portraits (and self-portraits) demand of us? Which version of yourself do you want to show the world today, and why?

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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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Rolling stone: how are you shaped by the places you’ve been?

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If nowhere in the world is home, all the world is home. Happy syllogism or rootless predicament?

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Questioning stable life: a rolling stone gathers confusing new moss

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The more a stable home life demands of this Third Culture Kid, the more she seeks out foreign interests and activities.

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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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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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What’s a global niche? The short answer

ANASTASIA ASHMAN
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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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My foreign body: geocharacteristics of a population

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Do warm places make warmer people? How has your body changed in adapting to a foreign climate?

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Self mute: choosing a world-flung life when you’re language-averse

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

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