I've only found your Ted x talk today and I love your videos! I've been aware of most of the struggles in this video but I've never realized I've been hesitant to tell my TCK experience to others because I'm scared it might come off as bragging. So this helped me learn new things about myself. Thank you for doing what you're doing :)

All comes flooding back when you talk about all this! Really glad you've found somewhere comfortable, I know college can be tough... Thanks again, Jay 🙏

Wowow Alessandra, thanks for telling your story ✊🏽 I really liked how you expressed your feelings towards "Goodbye". As we navigate this shrinking world, everything is eternal and all is close. Jay, really enjoy the series, thanks for producing it. 🙏

Thank you too Jay ☺ Love what you've done and how you've done it. Congrats on TCKglobal and looking forward to hopefully connecting this year 🌎 ✈ 🙌

Haha Jay love the video! Very entertaining and of course relatable for all of us 😄 I love your style and definitely all "rings home"! In time, I feel we all learn how to cope with these, and as with everything those initial training wheels are sensitive. It's fun, by being ourselves, it's more promoting others to consider their view of the world and people, and changing attitudes should be more enjoyable than it is (or was) frustrating. Adapt when you want to lie low, but open up when you want to influence. But wonderful fun video 😄 Thanks for sharing! 🙏🤝🤲 💙🤍💚

Contentment…👏👏👏

“Do you speak Saudi Arabian?” 😂 enjoyed this!

Thank you sooo much, it really helps！

I agree regarding the accent thing...and all of the above. Brill.

Wow this whole video was soooo relatable! Thanks so much for posting, the 10th one was so true...like why is it so hard to sound like your not bragging ):

Saaame! Thank you!!

What part of Pakistan were you in?

Thank you so much Alezandra for sharing. I can releate so well to you. Im also surprisingly relieved that someone finally have moved more than me. :P

I found you last year from a friend who is a TCK, and discovered I was one too! I was born in Argentina, moved to Monterrey, Mexico when I was 4, to Mexico City when I was 10, to Malaysia when 17, to Australia when 24, and this year moved to USA! In so glad Ive found this community because it does feel like you are alone and no one understands you! I dont feel like I have a home and honestly I think like I’ll never be able to call a country home because I’ll always be open to leave, though I cant wait to settle somewhere 😂 thank you for what you do and starting this much needed community!

The 3rd culture mindset is way different than those who are traditional. We see things in a more clear light and we are more real and honest then most people as well.

Everyone has their own story, but for me “what is home”? I’m a 34 year old mom now and my home is my family. I reaaaaaally struggled with the “home” concept after years of shaming myself for being a TCK, by trying to be “American”. (My logic was America is known as the melting pot so it must be my cultural identity. [wrong]). It took having a baby but I finally found mine. 😌

I really appreciate you making this video. As a TCK, it’s easy to feel like a freak for not having a traditional “home” concept like most people. I relate to everything you said in this video. Thanks for being vulnerable on KZbin for people like me. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🖖🏼🙂

I decided to conclude home is where friends and families are and it can be everywhere.

Its sooo hard sis! seriously! Just moved to SoCal suburbia in Orange County from London. It’s socially vacuous and so terribly lonely!

Sisss preaachhh! Literally the same

The jealousy people have is unreal. It’s not just about being perceived as spoiled. I think a big element is how our experiences incite envy. Such a great post!

I've definitely experienced the mixed emotions about home too. I considered Central Asia my home when I was younger, even for years after I moved to the UK. Then, when I went back to CA, I realized I didn't fit quite the way I did before and that made things quite confusing. Now I think of home as being more a sense that I carry within myself, a bit like a snail carrying a shell on their back :)

<3 this made my heart hurt in a good way

All of the above! I think I might look you up next time I’m in London. 🌎🌍🌏

Wow, thank you for making this. From one TCK to another. <3

I was born and raised in Saudi Arabia to Eritrean Ethiopian parents

Ooooof same girl

How about those people who travel so often in their home country? Like Philippines? Philippines is so culturally and dialectically diverse, right?

No we are not!!!!!

Thank you for making this video! As a fellow TCK everything you’re saying is so relatable and it’s comforting knowing someone else also feels this way

remove that awful music

😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠Where is home?😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠

Thank you so much. I just found your channel. I'm just about to move to Cambodia again.

Love it!

nice third culture kids story! check out mine: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rXywhqCniquahM0

#8......🤔🤔🤔😶

I like that word, homeful. I'm a TCK too. Can totally relate. Would love to get more involved in this area. Thanks for the vid 🙏

Love your content!

Great video! I’ve made a video about TCK kzbin.info/www/bejne/iZjPoomphJ2Wras Would be nice if you would want to check it out. Maybe you’d even want to do the Multilingual Mixtape challenge? Let me know! Have a nice day 🙏🏽

Hah, I can relate to everything in this video. Thanks for sharing <3

Omg, so yes! How do you explain no. 1 to the locals? They think I’m doing it on purpose 😬.

#TEAMNEVERSETTLE

i can already tell this video is gonna stress me out lol

I'm interested to know where in Africa Jasmin was born in!

I related to almost everything, but I am not a TCK. I am fluent in three of my languages to the extent that native speakers are surprised to learn those languages are not my first language. I don't know if this has happens to you. When I am thinking in a language other than English, I sometimes expect people to speak to me in the language I am thinking in. I once failed to understand a white lady, who spoke to me in English, because I was thinking in Spanish. Also my dreams tend to either include people, who have never met, speaking to each other in languages they do not know. I struggle to answer the question, "Where is home?" When I am not in America, I just say I am from the USA. When I am in America, I usually say I am from my current city even if I have not been there for a full year. I also get the urge to travel and move. No matter where I am there are always people I miss.

#5 is so true!

Hi Jay. email me. [email protected] I love your video. I am also a TCK (Swedish grown up in HK, Japan, Thailand). I am a cognitive behavioural therapist who specialises in TCKs. I want to discuss the possibility of featuring your videos on the blog part of our website. crossculturetherapy.com

at one point, an online chatroom was "home".

I usually say "it's complicated" which is also awkward lol

The video just kept getting more and more relatable with each point!! Number #9 was just so true. A few months ago, I did a full round trip of all my friends scattered all over the British Isles, then started getting grumpy as a flew back thousands of miles to Malaysia. Then I move from one side of Malaysia to the opposite side next month, leaving everyone behind here! And I just finised a week in Singapore last week, and didn't have enough time to see all my friends there. Thanks so much for doing this vid! Was really awesome, keep it up. :) I also have a problem that I never sort out my change, so each time I dig around in my coins at the shops, I have half a dozen different currencies to figure out. 😂