By: Jolie Chene
The language that Culturs uses to describe its “in-between” community is of utmost importance. In today’s society, assessing someone based on their appearance is not enough. Here are some culturally fluid definitions to understand Culturs and its audience better.
Cross Culture Kid (CCK): A person who has lived, or is living with multiple culture environments, including minorized individuals living within majority cultures.
Adult Cross-Culture Kid (ACCK): A current adult who grew up as a cross-culture kid.
Missionary Kids: Children of missionaries who traveled to missions domestically or abroad.
Third Culture Kids (TCKs): A person who has spent a significant amount of their development years outside of the parents' culture. First culture is an individual’s passport culture. Second culture is considered the culture that a child has grown up in. Third culture is a result of the person's life experience – the culture that they most belong to. Third culture is often where individuals feel community.
Third Culture Adult (TCA): Individuals who travel extensively or live in global locations after the age of 18.
Domestic TCK: Children who moved to various regions within the same country while growing up. Having to relearn ways of being, mainly through speech, dress and action.
Refugees: Internationally nomadic group not characterized by a parents occupation. Displaced from their home land, by force or by choice.
Immigrants: People who moved to another country different from their homeland to stay permanently.
Expatriate (Expat): Leaving one's native country to live elsewhere. Sometimes meaning to renounce allegiance to their native country.
Military B.R.A.T.:Children of the military who move with their parents within or outside of their home country. Often experiencing other cultures and the culture of military lifestyle itself.
Non-Military Foreign Service: Children traveling with their parents to different countries in non-military government roles, diplomatic corps, civil services, foreign service, etc.
Diplomat Kids: Childrens whose parents are members of the home country political framework while living on foreign soil.
Traveler: Those who travel expecting differences among intracultural and intercultural, however not immersing in these cultures for an extended period of time or long enough to integrate the culture as their own.
International Business Kids: Children whose parents work with multinational corporations take them away from their home country.
Borderlands: A citizen of one country that is very close to another. Often the two cultures spread into each other. Creating a separate culture from either home country.
Multiracial: A family that consists of two or more races to which they identify. Within race there are also cultural norms that can greatly differ.
Multiethnic/multicultural: A family that consists of two or more cultures.
To learn about more culturally fluid terms, check out: https://issuu.com/culturs/docs/8859-1542651282/42