theres nothing funnier to me than seeing every artist on my instagram put out a year of the horse drawing!!!

like damn guys year of the horse doesnt start till febuary 17th, it follows the lunar calendar 🌙

easy mistake if you didnt have chinese class from kindergarten to grade 12 where you learn the language, culture and holidays, so like i understand why they have the knowledge gap completely, and that i am laughing from a place of privilege.

but its so funny to me

like i love seeing the whimsical horse

but will the art be back in febuary guys? i want to see them again!

#cny #chinese new year #year of the horse #new years #happy new years #happy new year #chinese culture #third culture kid

esutips

CTDR / TRANSRACE MIXED TIPS

All mine and yes I'm the original 😛

１ Food

— Learn how to cook basic dishes

— Eat your ethnic food

— Buy cooking essentials

— Eat at least one meal of your native country a day

— Replace your daily intake of drink by drinks from your native country

— Buy cutlery and tableware used in your native country and only use it

— Go to your native country's cuisine restaurant

— Become familiar with one of the owner of your native country's cuisine restaurant

２ Songs

— Listen to your native lullabies

— Listen to popular children's songs you'd listen to as a kid

— Learn the national anthem by heart

— Listen and learn by heart popular March and folklore songs

３ TV

— Watch the national first channel

— Watch TV shows (use VPN)

— Watch children's TV shows you'd watch as a kid

— Watch the national news at least once a week

４ Books

— Read your favourite book in your native language

— Read children's fairytale and books you'd read as a kid

— Read popular novels, comics and magazines

５Phone

— Get on popular hashtags on popular global applications

— Change the names of your phone contacts to nicknames in your native language

— Change calendar to native one

— Change your recommendations to only content of your native country

— Change the clock to desired location

— Change phone language to native language

— Change weather to desired location

— Download popular applications from your native country (messaging, social media, games, editing apps...)

— Change phone location

— Use a VPN to have access to content of your native country

— Change your camera roll to the one your desired self would have

— Learn phone/online slang

６ Language

— Learn the language (obviously)

— Learn the alphabet song toddlers learn

— Write notes in your native language

— Write the date in your native language/native way

— Practice your handwriting to make it beautiful

— Learn to count downwards until 10

— Count things in your native language

— Read numbers in your native language

— Translate anything you love to your native language

— Think in your native language

— Before bed, always read something in your native language

— Say basic greetings on the daily (Morning greetings, Welcome, Thank you, Bon appétit, Have a nice day, Nice to meet you, Good luck, Congratulations, Condolences, Good night etc...)

— Write the definition of any word you don't know in another language in your native language

— Learn highly polite level language

— Sleep with something in your native language

— Learn love nicknames in your native language to use with your loved ones

Viel Glück 🍀

lucybellwood

“All that grieved me—that I was half one thing and half another and nothing wholly—was the sorrow of my childhood, but the strength and use of my life after I grew up.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin, Always Coming Home

#ursula k. le guin #quotes #dual nationality #third culture kid #rereading #always coming home #secret third thing

a-tragedy-in-perfection

Let me tell you how this story goes We all grow up and some grow old And all the places you once knew I remind you your perspective ages too You leave and dare not look behind Too scared (not) of what you know you’ll find

#web weaving #webweave #web weave #third culture kid #tck #leaving #on grief #on leaving #hiraeth

fence-time

Being raised third culture is kinda funny, like man, I’m never gonna fit in anywhere

#fence posts #this is phrased sadder than I am aboyt it #don’t take it sad. unless you want to? I guess??#I don’t control what you do and don’t do #I’ve never met someone the same ‘mix’ as me .. but there’s gotta be at least one other indo-German + kiwi person out there #right????#third culture kid #third culture

gauguinhater69

Reading House as a third culture kid

House’s childhood isn’t really explored in a whole lot of depth during the show. The only details we get are some brief mentions of his father’s abuse and the fact that House grew up moving around a lot due to his father serving as a Marine Corps aviator.

I’m pretty sure the only countries that are directly mentioned in the show as being places that House grew up in are the States, Japan, the Philippines, and Egypt. Both of House’s parents are American, as far as I am aware? He also mentions having a Dutch grandmother in One Day, One Room, but I can’t remember if that’s ever mentioned again or if he just said that for the plot. Regardless, this makes House a Third Culture Kid (or TCK).

Third Culture Kid is a term used to describe people who grow up in a culture that's different from their parents' culture or the culture of their country of nationality. TCKs are often children of expatriate workers, including members of the military (like House), or they can also be the result of transnational marriages. TCKs often develop an identity that's based on relationships with people rather than places.

I feel like this aspect of House’s upbringing explains a lot about his character and why he is The Way He Is. However, I think it was kind of glossed over in canon and could have been dealt with in a really interesting way, but instead they were just kind of like, “Haha, he read manga because army.”

Whether it was intentional by the writers or not, a lot of the ways House thinks, acts, and interacts with other characters is reflective of a TCK childhood. As a TCK myself, I unironically find House to be one of the best-written TCK characters I have ever come across, despite it not being explicitly discussed in the show (genuinely the only other TCK character in mainstream media that I can think of at the moment is Cady Heron from Mean Girls, who is not a good example, sorry girl).

The most compelling aspects of House’s personality, which I believe make him a well-developed representation of what it’s like to grow up as a third culture kid, include:

A complex relationship with authority and rules: TCKs often grow up in environments where they must navigate different sets of rules and authority figures, which could lead to a heightened skepticism about institutional authority. House's disregard for rules, his insubordination, and his tendency to challenge authority figures such as Cuddy, Vogler, Dr. Nolan, and even Wilson at times seem like an indication of a deeper mistrust of systems and structures. House appears to almost compulsively rebel against structure and situations where he is not completely in control, even if he knows that people are trying to help him, as seen in his time at Mayfield.
Alienation of self and others: I feel like this in particular is very central to House’s character and the show. He is constantly pushing the people who care about him away, like Stacy, Cuddy, Wilson, and the Ducklings. He avoids relationships (both romantic and platonic) and emotional connections with the people around him and believes that he is better off relying on himself alone. Many TCKs experience a sense of never truly fitting in anywhere and tend to alienate themselves (whether on purpose or not) because of it.
Detachment and critical thinking: House’s whole thing as a diagnostician is being able to see things from unconventional angles, and his sharp, often brutal, critical thinking is a reflection of this adaptive skill. However, this also contributes to his emotional detachment, as he prioritizes logic and objective analysis over subjective or cultural norms, distancing him from emotional involvement. Being exposed to a variety of different cultures, people, and cultural norms often contributes to TCKs developing the ability to view situations from multiple perspectives and come up with unusual solutions. This could also contribute to House deep desire to figure everything out, this includes the medical mysteries he solves, but also he needs to understand the actions and motivations of all the people around him. He wants to understand and know everything because this gives him a sense of control.
Deep need for control: Growing up in different places, where cultural norms and expectations may have shifted, could have made House feel like he had to assert control over his immediate surroundings to maintain some sense of stability. The trauma he experienced, particularly with his father’s abuse and emotional neglect, likely influenced this desire for control, as he may have associated control with safety and predictability. In addition to this, many TCKs create rigid systems or behavioural processes to compensate for a lack of “home”. House’s fractured sense of identity and personal trauma, which developed as a result of his experiences as a TCK, likely contributed to his need for control in all aspects of his life.

I also think these are all reasons why House is so drawn to Wilson. While Wilson is absolutely as much of a freak as House, he is the most stable and constant thing in House’s life (even more than his job as a doctor is). While medicine is extremely important to House, he works at the hospital on and off, unable to continue his practice while he is at Mayfield, and he ultimately gives up medicine entirely for Wilson. Through all the ups and downs of House’s life, Wilson is there, no matter how hard House tries to drive him away.

House values his relationship with Wilson above pretty much all other things in his life, because Wilson is one of the only constants in House’s life, which is something that House had been lacking before Wilson. House likely had developed the idea that relationships are fleeting due to his constant upheavals as a child, and this may be part of the reason why he is constantly pushing others away to try and save himself the pain of losing people.

However, Wilson keeps coming back no matter what. Despite the fact that House is rude and brash, despite the unhinged pranks, the borderline criminal acts, after House stole Wilson’s prescription pad, after House played a role in the death of Wilson’s girlfriend, again and again Wilson comes back.

I’m going insane, and I think this is very nearly incomprehensible. Does anyone else see the vision?

#I’m actually losing my mind #gnawing at the bars of my enclosure #house md spoilers #potentially #house md #gregory house #hilson #third culture kid #John House they could never make me like you

angryladyrants

#meme #meirl #memes #dank memes #funny memes #third culture kid

khloekunst

Shards of Sweet

Mama gave her an almond cookie. Only one. Break it into quarters and savor it, she instructed. She thought she was blessing her baby girl with the wisdom of delayed gratification, but she had just passed on the curse of half moons. 苦心經營, 終難修得圓滿。

That other life was haunted by the ghosts of 文字獄 and 因言獲罪, beat into line with 家醜不可外揚 and 惡人先告狀. No one told her to write her way out. But she wasn't one to wait for permission.

So she writes voraciously 'cause how else can she make them stay / nothing belongs to her otherwise. They want connection — what she shares with the snowstorm, the only time when the elements actually align with her interior — 但她只想要一點點愛. Still, no one beats her at unearthing crystal sugar from heaps of glass, diluting kindness with water to last her another three years. That's a long time to be in love with a human, but a mere blink in the life of a tree. Much more sensible to stick to her birch and royal poinciana. But one must come out from the woods sometimes. So on those nights, she sheds bitter tears over the senseless corpses of her slender sylphs, made into lackluster pages to host her lukewarm words, and dip into her heart's blood. 關係是假, 那些溫言軟語也是假. 只有筆下涓涓流淌的一顰一笑是真, so she notarizes it all on paper. Her only ticket to eternity.

Forgive me, Mother, for I have sinned. She thinks to herself as she pours the remnants of the cookie jar down her throat, warm fuzzies flooding her senses as she chokes from all the cloying crumbs.