Children of returned expats: Does the US seem foreign to you?
May 4, 2016 7:16 AM Subscribe
If you had an expat childhood, how well have you adjusted to American life, what have been some of your biggest challenges, and how have you resolved them?
My parents were expats in S. America from the mid-'30s through the mid-60s. I spent an amazing childhood in a large S. American city, then found myself in the midwest when my father's career ended.
It's too long to go into, but I still don't feel fully American. For example, however, going to the British School for the first five years of my education no doubt acculturated me to be a good British lad. So felt completely out of place on a baseball diamond at recess at my Kansas elementary school. On a deeper level, that schooling made me more deferential to authority than an American education would have.
My parents were expats in S. America from the mid-'30s through the mid-60s. I spent an amazing childhood in a large S. American city, then found myself in the midwest when my father's career ended.
It's too long to go into, but I still don't feel fully American. For example, however, going to the British School for the first five years of my education no doubt acculturated me to be a good British lad. So felt completely out of place on a baseball diamond at recess at my Kansas elementary school. On a deeper level, that schooling made me more deferential to authority than an American education would have.
This post was deleted for the following reason: Heya, this needs to more clearly framed around an direct answerable question—more "help me solve/understand/research x" and less "just tell me about yourself"—for it not be chatfilter. -- cortex
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