#egyptiaan-dutch
Identity begins at birth: a tongue curling around language, the meeting point of complexion and ethnicity, and the first, cautious steps into an environment. Children are socialized into understanding the world in select paradigms, colored by their upbringing and the ways in which they are taught to see themselves. For many, this process is fragmented; third-culture kids walk a thin, ready-to-snap tightrope of belonging—caught in the crevices between two cultures, battling the faultlines of two or more ideologies. Splintered as…