Photo #1 Jerry in a canoe in his village in Papua New Guinea (PNG)
Photo #2 Jerry, his dad & a Papua New Guinean man reading over the new translation of the New Testament Jerry's dad translated
#3 Jerry & his parents in front of their home on Bougainville Island, Papua New Guinea, when Jerry was a teenager
#4 Breanna in Costa Rica with Ticos from the Los Guido church
#5 Breanna at a pastors' families' retreat in Costa Rica (tall white one in the back, always)
*Note: Jerry's parents met and were married in Papua New Guinea, Jerry was born and raised his whole childhood there, attending a variety of national schools, mission schools and occasionally was home schooled.
Breanna moved to Costa Rica at age 11 and was there through her junior year in high school, though not a long time period, being they were such formative years, Costa Rica IS home for Breanna.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Third Culture Kids (abbreviated TCKs or 3CKs) (aka. Global Nomad) "refers to someone who [as a child] has spent a significant period of time in one or more culture(s) other than his or her own, thus integrating elements of those cultures and their own birth culture, into a third culture".[1] The composition of TCK sponsors changed greatly after WWII. Prior to WWII, 66% of TCKs came from missionary families and 16% came from business families. After WWII, with the increase of international business and the rise of two International Superpowers, the composition of international families changed.[2] Sponsors are generally broken down into five categories: Missionary (17%), Business (16%), Government (23%), Military (30%), and "Other" (14%).[3]
Since the term was coined by sociologist Ruth Hill Useem in the 1960's, TCKs have become a heavily studied global subculture. TCKs tend to have more in common with one another, regardless of nationality, than they do with non-TCKs from their own country.[4][5]
Photo #1 Jerry in a canoe in his village in Papua New Guinea (PNG)
No comments:
Post a Comment