welcome to our new social+ORDER

at the cross+ROADS ... places of hybrid identity + psychic limbo

common interest + experience defines us better than geography, nationality -- or even blood

*this is where we live*

call it neo+CULTURE

American culture (25)
borderlands (6)
career (16)
community (42)
culture (45)
Expat Harem concept (5)
family (16)
friendship (9)
global niche (17)
harem (4)
history (23)
home (23)
identity (72)
memoir (7)
multicultural (14)
origin (27)
psychic limbo (6)
self-image (32)
society (39)
taboo (12)
women (17)

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recent+POSTS

What kind of global citizen are you?


Born that way, always been


Schooled abroad


Lived abroad


Worked abroad


Traveler


Interested in a wider world


All of the above


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Authority abroad

Larger-than-life expat personalities seem in tune with far-flung surroundings, and able to produce their best work out of foreign atmospheres. [...]

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Can a photo capture the soul?

Some people believe a photo steals the soul. What about a photo that captures a soul death? [...]

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Senso unico

A serial expat reflects on how her expatriatism has changed through place, and over time. [...]

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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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What expat bloggers are made of

Expat bloggers flourish when we face a fresh appreciation for who we are, where we come from — and what we’re made of. [...]

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Sink or swim

Easy answers to complex cultural questions can’t prepare an American for her submersive role as member of a Kurdish tribe by marriage. [...]

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Mapping the imagination

Moving abroad and having to live in a world she only imagined, a mapmaker’s art changes. [...]

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Same river, never twice

What do you miss most about your home country? The solid reality of family and places — or an atmosphere long since vanished? [...]

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A new lyricism

An American in China discovers her new expat persona — lyrical, and feisty — offers the freedom to redefine who she is and what she wants to be. [...]

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Strategic love

If marriage is the smallest unit of a community, then cross-cultural couples are ambassadors, peace-makers, and change-agents. [...]

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