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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

Honor in defeat

Can there be honor in defeat? How does your culture define national honor? [...]

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June 28th, 2010 | Tags: Balkan, Balkans, boo-yah, Bosnia, celebration, commemoration, conquest, defeat, Field of the Blackbirds, Herzegovina, honor, June 28, military, Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, multiethnic, national honor, Ottoman, Ottomans, resilience, Sarajevo, school the competition, Serb, Serbia, Serbian, Slavic, St. Vitus, survival, Turkish-American, Turks, victory, Vidovdan, war, war hero | Category: community, history, identity, multicultural, 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

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

Past is present

The neo-Nazi movement is strong in Prague and as a mixed breed Asian woman, my hugely tattooed shoulders give me some street cred. [...]

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April 28th, 2010 | Tags: Asian, bindi, Communism, Czech, Czech Republic, discrimination, dissident, expat+HAREM series, ghosts of the past, Gypsy, minority, neo-Nazi, physical presentation, post-Communist, Prague, racism, Roma, Romani, secret service, Sezin Koehler, skinhead, Slovak, street cred, street credibility, tattoo, tram, Velvet Revolution, white supremacy, xenophobia | Category: community, identity, multicultural, origin | 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

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

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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