Food: A Third Culture Kid’s Sense of Identity. | Eric Pak | TEDxYouth@ISBangkok

[rajurahman]

It's my first comment to this channel I learnt many things from this channel

[mooncookies]

I have a question so my dad was adopted from the Vietnam war and was never able to find his birth parents, my mom is Mexican and has a little bit of Native American in her and I just went on a civi rights trip for two weeks with my senior class and I realized as we went through battlefields and stuff that my friends (who are mostly white) just don't understand it. when my first thing with race happened on that trip I was extremely uncomfortable and felt out of place. for hours I didn't talk to anyone and I felt an extreme amount of tiredness. it made me feel ashamed to not know my roots, of course I have my dad mom and brother who are blood related but ive always wondered what it would've been like to be raised in a Mexican house or asian house or Native American house, and not a white household. I have had extreme shame for myself since that trip because it changed the way I look at myself and others, because I was raised white, my family is white, the places we go to like country clubs only have white people in it and I feel very disconnected with my roots and I wish I knew more, but I don't know if its possible for that to happen. does this make me a third culture kid? I never moved from Colorado, but as ive gotten older my sense of identity has felt torn.

[yoselinalcaras]

I love this ! This relates a lot to me

[TheSuperpinkstar]

This was a nice perspective to learn about

[MorAcro]

Cliche at the end would be you are what you eat 😅

[professionalnobody]

why is there only four comments (with my comment will now be 5)