Third Culture Creativity

Third Culture Kids are practical when translating diverse ideas and mediating disparities or divisions. Budding TCK artists will galvanize, presenting valuable qualities affecting kindred industries, and influencing the next generation of TCKs in various bustling cities. TCK’s often act as mediators rather than leaders as they realize there is not one way of doing things. As global markets merge, TCK’s conceptualize a utopia where cultures blend rather than clash. Contemporary art, architecture, fashion, and music; politics, finance, transportation, and education; technology, medicine, spirituality, and ethics are influenced by people who are able to communicate an amalgamation of foreign ideas through a particular lens. TCK’s are a direct product of globalization and therefore, in an ideal position to conceptualize and design the lifestyle of a freshly emerging universal sub-culture. At the forefront of the global age, TCK’s can refine terms of creative expression within cosmopolitan culture.

It is easy to find examples that standout as fresh amongst the artistic influences of TCK’s. As the world shrinks by the virtue of technological inventions in communication and cheap airfare, a new generation of TCK’s are even more culturally in tune assimilating their ideas not only to a singular party but a variety. They are developing in a world now influenced by President Barack Obama, where multiculturalism is becoming widely accepted. TCK’s will find a hospitable nest for fabricating their ideas. However, as the number of global nomads increase, the homogenization of their influence becomes increasingly pragmatic, and even the universal experience of TCK’s do not make them immune. As more influential TCK’s are branded and multiculturalism becomes a design concept, one can only take comfort that such bastardization is not new to the world of art realizing that the very few masterful products will bypass gentrification.