Shifting Lenses
Observations on culture, place, and the ways people live.
Third Culture Kids: “children who move between cultures before they have had the opportunity to fully develop their personal and cultural identity”.
Growing up between the USA, China and Singapore has made us curious about the ways people experience the same world differently. Shifting Lenses is a collection of observations about culture, identity, health, sport and everyday life from the places we’ve lived and traveled.
Category: From the Archives
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10 years ago my family went to Lang Co, Vietnam. Sadly, the most vivid memory of the trip is that we were advised not to swim in the ocean or touch the water. This is not ideal when you are a kid at a beachfront resort on holiday. Recently, when talking to my parents about…
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Looking back, our trip to the Philippines was easily one of the most memorable vacations of my younger years. It was all about sharp contrasts. We kicked things off in the crazy urban sprawl of Manila and wrapped up our stay on the island paradise of Palawan. The Manila Metro area is gigantic, 14 million…
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Years ago, my family and I went on a holiday to Myanmar. At the time, I was in upper elementary, and it seemed like a perfectly normal trip for people living and traveling in Asia. We started in Yangon, then traveled to Bagan, and finally relaxed on Ngapali Beach. I remember a lot from that…
