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If you spend time around bicultural people or 3rd culture kids you’ll find this is definitely an issue. Eventually most people figure things out and make the m
by gyomu 2y ago
If you spend time around bicultural people or 3rd culture kids you’ll find this is definitely an issue.
Eventually most people figure things out and make the most of it in adulthood, but it definitely makes for teenage/young adult identity crises that monocultural people don’t have to deal with.
- keiferski 2y agoI think you’re confusing two things: third culture kids who grow up in multiple places while not feeling at home in any of them; and bilingual kids that grow up in a smaller number of places/one place but still speak multiple languages because of their ancestry, etc. The former group has more issues fitting in, while the latter seem to be just fine. Certainly plenty of people in Europe speak more than one language natively and don’t feel like they lack a home. And it’s not like there is an actual country where only deaf people exist. So the idea of avoiding bilingualism seems totally absurd to me, especially when probably the majority of the world has some level of bilingualism by default.