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Worldtown Hearsay :: June 7th, 2009
June 7, 2009 – 7:06 pm | No Comment
Worldtown Hearsay :: June 7th, 2009

We trawl the news media so you don’t have to.

Czechs Cool to Presence of Workers From Asia :: The New York Times:

Meet Toronto’s little poet man :: The Toronto Star… Watch the Video!

The Intersection of Islam, America and Identity :: The New York Times… See the art pieces

Self is Other
May 29, 2009 – 3:52 pm | No Comment

Third culture. To me, the phrase conjures up images of mould growing in Petrie dishes. The third generation of such a mould, perhaps, carefully reared in a sterile laboratory environment. Someone once told me that the phrase third culture referred to children such as myself. Children of twentieth century migrants, children who belonged neither to the culture of their parents, nor the culture of their host land. People like myself who created a new, hybrid third culture, a marriage of the heritage of our parents with the culture of our adopted homeland. But what happens when you have not one adopted homeland but two or three?