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Cross Cultural Kids

January 24, 2018 by admin

A Cross-Cultural Kid ( CCK) is a person who has lived in—or meaningfully interacted with—two or more cultural environments for a significant period of time during developmental years.” Ruth Van Reken

Cross-Cultural Kids (CCKs) Model

This group includes:

  • Traditional TCKs –Children who move into another culture with parents due to a parent’s career choice
  • Bi/multi-cultural/ and/or bi/multi-racial children —Children born to parents from at least two cultures or races
  • Children of immigrants —Children whose parents have made a permanent move to a new country where they were not originally citizens
  • Children of refugees —Children whose parents are living outside their original country or place due to unchosen circumstances such as war, violence, famine, other natural disasters
  • Children of minorities —Children whose parents are from a racial or ethnic group which is not part of the majority race or ethnicity of the country in which they live.
  • International adoptees —Children adopted by parents from another country other than the one of that child’s birth
  • “Domestic” TCKs —Children whose parents have moved in or among various subcultures within that child’s home country.
    • Special note: Children are often in more than one of these circles at the same time. (e.g. A traditional TCK who is also from a minority group; a child of immigrants whose parents are from two different cultures, etc.) This helps us understand the growing complexity of the issues we face in our changing world.

[Note: See VanReken’s site for analysis and ideas demonstrating the current importance and value of Cross Cultural Kids in the 21st Century. KFR]

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