Third Culture Kids and Why I am one

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_culture_kid

Fundamentally Third-culture kid is the only possibly identity I can possibly have. 

Back in Russia my parents moved a lot and I had to adjust to different schools often with kids who had somewhat different cultures from area where I study before.

To top it all up, USSR collapsed, and Soviet culture was slowly dying, without anything in particular yet emerged to replace it with.

To top it up upper class friends my parents used to have, have vastly different culture from poorer kids in most schools I attended. I played with children my parents privileged friends and many of them were nice.

In fact, Nikos and Kiril from private school are possibly the best kind of friends I ever had in Russia. Interacting with them was easy and pleasant.

Fedya was valuable, because he had skills in surviving that nasty hostile environment, he had to live in. Though I could appreciate that he was a lot more on my side in various issues that my parents for example. However, that was not always the case.

I spend couple of years in a private school with other upper-class kids. I could often get along much better with upper-class kids, than with poorer kids in other schools. Many poorer kids were often hostile, and I avoided them. Possibly they were jealous of my wealth and genius.

I now think that my parents pulled me out of private school because they did not like this upper-class culture it had. Bastards may be made money in 90s, but it is their loyalty to their poorer background that ruined it all. 

Australia

Because of all of the above, it was smart of me to emigrate out of Russia and move to Australia. There for a time being I was surrounded by other thrid culture kids, just like myself.

They are the best people to be around. They are friendly, tolerant and hopeful of the future. They are not stuck in any one culture but are open minded and travel the world seeking better life to themselves. They are dreamers.

They are possibly the only kind of people I can possibly get along with. As I lack awareness or acceptance of any of the cultures, I have been exposed to. 

So, I can only get along with other people who are just like me.

Conclusion

I actually like being third culture kid as it gives me freedom from any one way of living that is imposed on people elsewhere.

I like to have my options and freedom to do whatever I want. I do not want to be confined in any one way of living.

Knowing my options allow me to shop for better conditions and not just be stuck in whatever mess happenstances wish to plug me in.