2021_01_29.W3 Notes
25, 01, 2021 Monday’s notes
{Friday = Guidance counselor Ms. Laura}
Exegesis Presentation
Sarang
Be brave, confident and make friends
David A
Change of assumption (HOW we interact others)
Belle
Change in circumstances = change in behavior
Annie
(ex: Jin in MCS) Annie explained how circumstances change one person’s behavior.
Brent - Everybody going to college is making a transition. Everybody has a certain experience that makes them a certain kind of person.
Experience = Identity?
Iksoo - experience changes your identity. The circumstances affect your identity strongly.
Josiah - experience changes your mindset and behavior, so it could determine your identity.
On the other hand, God created man with a different identity. (The same experience does not make the same identity.)
Annie = Experience is just a part of identity. (religion, personality, believe) Many other factors determine the identity.
Yulmae - personality changes due to the circumstances. She experiences that environment strongly changing her identity.
(If you were not TCK?)
Sam (Florida Sam) - It would be worse. Public schooling limits relationships with God.
Sarang - if she was not MK, she would not be talking to anyone. (Korean Sarang - studying like a robot)
Josiah (Illinois) + more friends, living in the comfort zone.
Monocultural mindset. Limiting experience.
* Circumstances and environment cause you to change.
Read chapter 1 (notes)
The World of the Global Nomad
Me & my husband are preparing to go to Pakistan (Peshawar).
New land = excited, adventure
One colleague of my husband “after 3 months, you will hate it living there”
Wow !!! everything is different in Pakistan !!!!
I enjoyed it first -> later on sad and sad.
Preparing ahead of time helps reduce the number of stress.
What is a Global nomad / Third Culture Kid
Global nomad (TCK) = People who grow up outside their parent’s home culture.
International Mobility experiences
Repatriating TCKs = returning to home country for college
Transitioning TCKs = decided to attend university in another host country
Theo = Kenyan teenager who had grown up in Germany and planning to attend university in the U.K.
International of foreign students (FS) = students who have grown up in your passport country and choose to make an international move for the first time as you enroll in the university.
Commonality in the Experiences
Different backgrounds, but common things make a cross-cultural transition.
Where are you from???? Don’t know how to answer this question.
(answer = international student)
The Good News
When TCK repatriates, it takes a time to feel comfortable.
Research has shown that people who receive cross-cultural training shortly before or after their international relocation have a smoother transition.
A Double Adjustment
Knowing foreign culture more than home culture could lead to -> Cultural imbalance, identity issues, misunderstanding home-country peers.
Ex: Brent has an American father and a Thai mother and lived in Pakistan. He thought he was American, but his friend told him that he is a bit different from American. (This experience is not unique)
Why a Cross-Cultural Childhood Matters
Adult > already established their value system, sense of cultural identity, and core relationships with family and friends in the home culture.
TCK> live in a world that changes culturally and physically during their ever-important formative years.
“For TCK’s, the moving back and forth from one culture to another happens before they have completed the critical developmental task of forming a sense of their own personal or cultural identity (location 624)”
Belonging to the Third Culture Tribe
What is the Third culture?
People living outside their own country formed an interstitial culture that was different from the host culture, but it was one that they shared together in that particular setting.
Dr. Useem: identity three distinctly separate cultures
The home or passport culture
All of the places a child has ever lived
Community of people who have done the same thing
*the sense of belonging is found neither in the home culture nor in the host culture, but with others who share the experience of living outside their passport cultures.
The Expanded Definition
TCK = “a person who has spent a significant part of his or her developmental years outside the parents’ passport culture”
The TCK builds relationships to all of the cultures while not having full ownership in any. (I know ㅠㅠ)
Belonging to the community of people who have shared a similar way of living (regardless of national, ethic...).
What Does it Mean to be a Third Culture Kid?
Understanding the TCK profile is imperative to understanding what happens during the transition to higher education.
The Basics
Everyone is different = we should not merely generalize about a group of people.
Barack Obama TCK 4 years in Jakarta.
Cultural confusion
form our sense of identity = is to successfully learn the basic cultural rules of our society while we are children, to internalize those principles and practices as we move through adolescence, and then use them as the foundation for how we live and act like adults.
Two Realities of Being a TCK
They live in a genuinely cross-cultural world.
They live in a highly mobile world.
The circle of friends is ever-changing and enlarging to take in newcomers.
Internationally Mobile Childhood: The Plus Side
Learning new languages
Meeting new people
Learning first-hand how other cultures operate
Seeing and experiencing many “exotic” places
Having confidence in travel and starting anew
Having friends all over the world
Learning to be creative
>unerstanding that there can be more than one way to look at the same thing
Being good storytellers
Cross-Cultural Skills
Many TCK educated alongside foreigners = expand the cultural boundaries.
Appreciate diversity and understand differences
Able to bridge the gap between cultures
Observational skills
TCK = cultural chameleons
Change color (culture) to fit in.
TCK has a high skill at observation
Adaptability
TCK experience = repeatedly having to cope with new circumstances
Social skills
TCK = slow at social skills during their chameleon stage.
TCK can be very socially competent and confident after the chameleon stage.
The Flip Side
TCK responds to a given situation in a variety of ways.
Grow from their multiple moves and constantly changing cultures
The Emotional Toll
What are some of the downsides of being a TCK?
Having to say frequent good byes
Having to find new friends
Leaving pets and people behind
Having to wear masks (XD I agree!!!!)
Arrogance - Real or Perceived
Arrogance = when they forget that their cross-cultural lifestyle has given them a broader view of the world > they become impatient and judgmental.
Experience versus Identity
Experience more about the world
Not sure about identity (Who am I?)
Changing cultural Boundaries
Cultural boundaries began changing and were no longer clear
Diversity became more widespread
Cross-Cultural Kids
Traditional TCKs
Domestic TCKs (like Lisa)
Children of immigrants
Children of refugee
What You Should Know:
Your international experiences have made you different from most of your peers at college. Learning to live out those differences positively will help you thrive in your new setting.
27, 01, 2021 Wednesday’s note
Pandamonium - panda???? Create a great Chaos??? XD
Meaning = all demons
John Milton - in hell, lot’s of demons, they create a city.
“As you look at it, do you feel like your experience as a TCK has helped you transition to pandemic living, or hindered it?
Yes, my TCK experience helped me transition to pandemic living. Since I am used to transitioning from place to place, adapting in the new environment was not a big difficulty. Personally, this pandemic is also one specific circumstance that we should adapt to.
Group 1 Fiona: TCK and Pandemic living are not related.
Group 2 Angel: No connection between pandemic living and TCK experience.
Group 3 Henry: TCK experience -> developed adapt skill. Pandemic living is a new circumstance, so it does help us to adapt.
Domestic TCK
It helped me because I experienced various cultures, so later in the college I would not have a cultural shock. (Fiona)
Pandemic leaving -> it could be burnt out
another significant transition
Too many things might tore you.
Guilt feelings of contact to the friend.
(breakout room)
Mr. Hall = Failing 1year and a half. His brother was smarter. Mr. Hall moved to a smaller college and he overdid arcademic work.
Sung Woo’s brother - He is doing an internship and experiencing new things. Elder’s help him. Don’t be too shy, show yourself to others.
_____(Discussion about transition )_____
Group 1 Rachel
Keep our social life, call each other to keep friendship.
Stay active because we are getting lazy
At the end of the day, (do not regret)
Group 2 Peter
Not much thing to do - go with the flow
Do not be afraid of having transition
Group 3 Daniel
Have a consular before you go to college. When you have struggles you can ask for it.
Ask something to get advice (ask friend, teacher, elder).
29, 01, 2021 Friday’s note
Take notes well !
Ms Laura Salvadora !!!!!!! (counselor@mtview.id)
She moved from Athletic Department to Secondary
“School is ready for you !!!!”
Ask! ask! ask!, do not hesitate to ask (about any struggles) to Ms.BJ and Ms.Laura.
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight”
Proverbs 3:5-6 -
Ms. Laura is always open to help us. She could help us during the summer break. (because Korean application starts during the summer break)
Q&A
How should we stand out? (college application)
Are you a consistent person? Ex: soccer 3years, volential service 2 years
How can we fulfil the service hour requirement?
Ms.BJ is arranging it.
Do not really need to worry about it.
Any struggle?
Make a zoom meeting with Ms. Laura. Ask her for help.
If you love what you do. That’s good. If you find a job that you don’t like. You will regret it too.
Do we have to have prior knowledge to go to that college?
It depends on what major.
Some might need certain credit of requirements.
After class
If we miss the class we should ask our classmate for the notes.
If you have any questions, ask the teacher.
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