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With/out borders

Border disputes never made sense to me. Living all over the world gave me a free floating perception of the world. [...]

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September 1st, 2010 | Tags: astrocartography, boundaries, boundary, civil war, colonial power, Czech Republic, expat+HAREM series, Frida Kahlo, friendship, genocide, hybrid/MONSTER, India, Kashmir, Lady Gaga, locational astrology, mapping, maps, Pakistan, physical boundary, portrait, Prague, psychic boundary, separatist, Sezin Koehler, Sri Lanka, Tamil, Tamil Tigers | Category: borderlands, community, friendship, history, identity, psychic limbo, self-image | View Comments

The customer is sometimes wrong

Buy locally, think globally is a concept still tough to grasp. I’d rather wait to sell mine to someone who cares about supporting the local makers. [...]

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August 25th, 2010 | Tags: act locally, at-cost, bargain, buy locally, Catherine Salter Bayar, China, clothing industry, consumption, doll, expat+HAREM series, fashion industry, globalization, hand-made, handmade, Istanbul, low price, manufacturing, mass-produced, Mexico, Newly Industrialized, Sultanahmet, think globally, Turkmen, Wal-Mart | Category: American culture, career, community, culture | 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

Running from the pack

Here’s my idea of travel torture: Sabotaging a holiday by overpaying someone to impose an itinerary on me. [...]

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July 21st, 2010 | Tags: Babel, black sheep, Catherine Salter Bayar, crossroads, cruise, cruise ship, diversity, expat+HAREM series, Grand Bazaar, group travel, homogeneity, homogeneous, independent travel, Istanbul, pack mentality, Santa Barbara, Sultanahmet, the point of travel, the purpose of travel, tour group, tour guide, tourism, tourist, travel philosophy, travel style | Category: American culture, community, culture, identity, self-image | View Comments

Finding timelessness

A Californian’s perception of time changed when she changed cultures. [...]

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June 9th, 2010 | Tags: Catherine Salter Bayar, expat+HAREM series, fashion designer, fast-paced, interior designer, Istanbul, megacity, multi-tasking, nargile, pace of life, Selcuk, Sultanahmet, timelessness, Turkey, Turkish, village, waterpipe | Category: career, community, family, origin, self-image | View Comments

Nasty ex machina

Russia’s bad customer service is both a stereotype, and has deep cultural, political and religious roots. [...]

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May 19th, 2010 | Tags: Berkshires, contempt, customer, customer service, Dividing My Time, expat+HAREM series, gentility, Jennifer Eremeeva, Moscow, planned economy, Reign of terror, Russia, Russian, Russian Orthodox, Russian Orthodox Church, service, Soviet, Soviet-era, Stalin, suffering, superstition, supplier is king | Category: community, origin | 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

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

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

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