3CK
Thread Starter
Joined: Jan 2000
Aviation Qualifications: SLF
Posts: 1,578
Likes: 312
From: UK and Italy
3CK
3CK refers to 'third culture kids' although some of us are no longer kids. It means people who have one or more nationalities, who don't live in the country of their first or second nationality, and live in another. They have another culture, neither their passport or birth country, nor the culture of the country in which they live. That's a third culture.
I'm a 3CK. When I was a teenager, I knew how old a girl had to be for carnal purposes, how old you had to be to get a drink, and what time you could get served in multiple jurisdictions. I have two passports, and have spent entirely too much of my life at Heathrow Terminal 2.
These days, it's milder. I put my Irish Passport on the counter and say 'buon giorno'. 'But you are Milanese'. No I'm Irish.
Then my twins put their passports on the counter with a giggle. Umm, Canadian. But you're a family. Si, nasciamo in Victoria, Columbia Britannica. But you're Venetians. I can hear it your accents.
He has to pass us.
We're 3CKs. We don't belong to any country. We're not owned.
I'm a 3CK. When I was a teenager, I knew how old a girl had to be for carnal purposes, how old you had to be to get a drink, and what time you could get served in multiple jurisdictions. I have two passports, and have spent entirely too much of my life at Heathrow Terminal 2.
These days, it's milder. I put my Irish Passport on the counter and say 'buon giorno'. 'But you are Milanese'. No I'm Irish.
Then my twins put their passports on the counter with a giggle. Umm, Canadian. But you're a family. Si, nasciamo in Victoria, Columbia Britannica. But you're Venetians. I can hear it your accents.
He has to pass us.
We're 3CKs. We don't belong to any country. We're not owned.
Joined: Jun 2007
Aviation Qualifications: Spotter
Posts: 1,883
Likes: 500
From: Beyond the Blue Horizon
Justapax
I flew into Manchester from Northern Italy with two young women from Leeds Grammar doing A levels. There parents were sat elsewhere. They had got multiple passports as Father was in the mining industry. One born Chile one Australian both had Australian passports but also Namibian as well as English. Great set of kids as I told their parents when disembark in.
Cheers
Mr Mac
I flew into Manchester from Northern Italy with two young women from Leeds Grammar doing A levels. There parents were sat elsewhere. They had got multiple passports as Father was in the mining industry. One born Chile one Australian both had Australian passports but also Namibian as well as English. Great set of kids as I told their parents when disembark in.
Cheers
Mr Mac
Paxing All Over The World
Joined: May 2001
Posts: 10,842
Likes: 328
From: Hertfordshire, UK.
I have never heard this term before. Whilst only holding UK, I lived in the colonies for a time and am (technically) 25% South African. However, many friends of mine might fall into this category and I shall forward it to them.
Joined: Feb 2015
Aviation Qualifications: PPL
Posts: 1,760
Likes: 358
From: Cincinnati, Ohio
My apologies for thread drift, but follows my tale of intergenerational confusion:
Long after their respective spouses had perished, my mother's mother married my father's father. Still with me? This meant that my parents became step-sister and step-brother to one another, my brother and I became one-another's step uncles, and I am my own first cousin!
If this is Friday, it must be Paris....
- Ed
Long after their respective spouses had perished, my mother's mother married my father's father. Still with me? This meant that my parents became step-sister and step-brother to one another, my brother and I became one-another's step uncles, and I am my own first cousin!
If this is Friday, it must be Paris....
- Ed
