Most of us cannot go somewhere on the ground where all our people and our perfect lifestyle exist. We must find that psychically — call it our “global niche”.
Posts Tagged ‘global citizen’
Ring my bell
Posted in American culture, culture, friendship, harem, identity, society, women, tagged Art is Dialogue, Asia, California, Catherine Salter Bayar, Catherine Yigit, China, citizen of the world, creative expression, Czech Republic, Dialogue2010, discussion series, dual citizenship, Dutchwoman, Elmira Bayrasli, Europe, expat+HAREM, global citizen, global nomad, Holland, hybrid life, hybrid self, Italy, Jocelyn Eikenburg, Judith van Praag, Karen Armstrong Quartarone, kindred spirit, location independent, mapping, Netherlands, New York, Pacific Northwest, Rose Deniz, Sezin Koehler, Tara Lutman Agacayak, Third Culture Kid, Turkey, United Nations, Washington, writing on March 2, 2010 | 27 Comments »
What comes first, the hybrid self or the hybrid life? Are our most resonant peers made or born?
Shophouse talk
Posted in culture, history, society, tagged architecture, British, Chinese, conservation, Don Fels, Georgetown, global citizen, global nomad, historic preservation, Hong Kong, India, Indian, Italy, Kerala, Malay, Malaysia, Naples, Nassim Assefi, Patricia Fels, Penang, Procida, Shanghai, shophouse, Singapore, Straits Settlements, UNESCO, World Heritage site on December 3, 2009 | 10 Comments »
Penang’s shophouses embodied the equatorial island’s melange of cultures and its exotic mercantile history. How does architecture influence your understanding of a place, its people and history?
Does expat lit deserve its own shelf?
Posted in culture, history, identity, memoir, society, tagged #litchat, assimilation, bias, book, bookstore, collective consciousness, colonial literature, cultural embrace, Deborah Davidson, emigree, Emmanuelle Archer, expat, expatriate, genre, global citizen, immigrant, Jennifer Eaton Gokmen, library, literature, literature of place, M. Dominique Benoit, Nassim Assefi, outsider view, Third Culture Kid, travel, travel writing, travelogue, Twitter, vicarious living on November 19, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Expatriate literature may be stocked in the travel-memoir-classics section, but does it deserve a shelf of its own? Highlights from a week of Twitter #litchat about the unique depths of outsider cultural views from the inside
expat+HAREM: blooming behind closed doors
Posted in culture, identity, society, tagged anthology, collaboration, crossroads, culturati, culture, expat, ExpatHarem.com, expatriate, global citizen, global niche, global nomad, globalism, hybrid, identity adventurer, Jennifer Eaton Gokmen, liminality, multicultural, nationalism, neoculture, regionality, stereotype, threshold, tradition, travel, Turkey, Turkophile, virtual community on October 16, 2009 | 4 Comments »
The (softly) relaunched ExpatHarem.com domain aims to bring a virtual community of cultural peers to life online as a neoculture hub for global citizens and identity adventurers as well as travelers, culturati and Turkophiles.
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