Third Culture Book Club

“Third Culture Kid” — these three words can be deeply powerful.

This book club explores these themes. We choose a book only as starting point into the theme. There is no pressure to read the book, and people can choose to come and learn.

It's about learning and connecting through common lived experiences.

Moving countries changed our languages, our stories, our spiritual traditions, our sense of beauty, and even our ideas of what is “normal” or “respectable.”
These forces didn’t disappear just because colonisation ended on paper.
They kept shaping:

• how we see ourselves,
• what we think we’re allowed to feel,
• what we fear or hide,
• and what parts of our identity we push down to fit in.

It’s about understanding the inheritance we carry, so we can choose what actually belongs to us — and let go of what doesn’t.

“Third culture” describes people who grew up between cultures:

• Roots at home,
• Western or global culture outside,
• and our own mixed identity somewhere in the middle.
• Many of us learned to switch between worlds to survive.

When we put these two ideas together, Third Culture simply means Understanding how history, family, religion, language, shame, colourism, class, and how Western expectations shaped us… and to then slowly making space to be who we really are.

That’s it - awareness, unlearning, in a safe dialogical social space that will encourage non transactional connections. So community rather than networking, perhaps even friendships rather than followers.

This will remain a placeholder for this group until it has sufficient member interest to launch.