December 21, 2007

• Hmmmm...

  "Some would argue that his childhood experiences, as well as his mixed
  heritage (his father was Kenyan, his mother from Kansas), gives him a
  better inner compass on foreign policy than most Americans. They cite
  the pioneering work of Ruth Hill Useem, the late sociologist of Michigan
  State University, who spent her career studying what she called Third
  Culture Kids — the millions of U.S. children (an estimated 20 million
  since the advent of mass air travel) who have been carted abroad by
  their missionary, diplomatic, corporate or military parents. These
  frequent-flier kids don't spend enough time in their adopted countries
  to become fully bicultural, but they take pieces and add it to their
  home values and traditions — creating millions of "Third Cultures."
  Studies have shows that kids who have spent time abroad are more likely
  to go to college, to relate to one another despite the influences of
  vastly differing cultures, and to latch on to one aspect of their
  culture — in Obama's case African Americanism."

  http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1695803,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics

  I think that it's important for children to go abroad... and maybe even live abroad.

  When will they be old enough, you think? 

  • 2:33 pm
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