Natasha Schou
Natasha Schou is a Tempo contributor.

THE world is shrinking. Every day, through the marvels of affordable air travel and global Internet access, the cultures of the world are merging in ways they never have before. Understandably, this mixing of cultures brings with it a group of people who occupy the margins of society: Third Culture Kids. A TCK is defined as a child who has grown up abroad, outside their passport country, which