martes, 4 de octubre de 2016

Personal response on TCKs

Respond to the following stimulus using any suitable text type that you have studied in class. Write between 150 to 250 words. 


"If provided with the right support and guidance, TCKs are exactly what today and tomorrow’s world requires. They don't just think and act global, they are global."

 Famous Third Culture Kids:

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1. Barack Obama: Barack Obama is the 44th, and current president of the United States. Barack had an American mother and a father from Kenya, Africa. Obama's mother divorced his African father and remarried an Indonesian man. After that, Obama lived in Indonesia for a while. He is a Third Culture Kids as well as a political leader

2. Kim Jung Un: Kim Jung Un is  the Supreme Democratic Leader of Korea. It has also been told that he was indoctrinated in Switzerland until the age of 15. This is another third culture kid that is in politics

3. Uma Thurman: This famous Hollywood Actress is also a third culture kid who was born in Boston, Massachusetts, but after nine years, she moved to a Himalayan town in India. Uma's father was a writer and named her Uma, which means light.


4. Freddie Mercury: Did you know that Freddie Mercury, the heroic lead singer of the rock band Queen, is a third culture kid?!! Well, he is. Freddie was born in Tanzania and then moved to Bombay, India when he was only ten years old. After that, Freddie moved to England at the age of seventeen.

5. Kobe Bryant: The legendary 5 time NBA champion, with the name of Kobe Bryant is also another third culture kid! Kobe grew up in Reiti, Italy until the age of fourteen and learnt more about basketball and has some of his skills from his father who was a basketball player too.

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