{"id":43154,"date":"2015-10-11T02:07:01","date_gmt":"2015-10-11T02:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=43154"},"modified":"2015-10-11T02:07:01","modified_gmt":"2015-10-11T02:07:01","slug":"i-belong-everywhere-and-nowhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=43154","title":{"rendered":"I belong everywhere and nowhere."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Like many TCKs [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Third_culture_kid\" target=\"_blank\">third culture kids<\/a>] and persons of mixed ancestry, I have searched all my life for \u201chome\u201d. In late 2012 I relocated to the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Greater_Los_Angeles_Area\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles area<\/a> after more than two decades in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/San_Francisco_Bay_Area\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Bay Area<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_York_City\" target=\"_blank\">New York City<\/a>. L.A.\u2019s a good place for in-between-ers like me. In this sprawling metropolis with no center, a place that\u2019s in a perpetual state of fragmentation, disintegration, and transformation and whose population represents every culture and nation, I can enjoy a sense of internal and external spaciousness. But it\u2019s a restless city and its vast size lends itself to tribalism. As a relative newcomer, it\u2019s been challenging to find a place of belonging. But then I\u2019m reminded that, as an adult TCK who\u2019s moved over 40 times since my birth, I\u2019ve always felt this way, no matter where I\u2019ve lived. <em>I belong everywhere and nowhere.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mari L\u2019Esperance, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=43133\" target=\"_blank\">Liminality as Inheritance: On Being Mixed and Third Culture<\/a>,\u201d <em>Mixed Roots Stories<\/em>, October 7, 2015. <a href=\"http:\/\/mixedrootsstories.com\/liminality-as-inheritance-on-being-mixed-and-third-culture\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/mixedrootsstories.com\/liminality-as-inheritance-on-being-mixed-and-third-culture\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like many TCKs [third culture kids] and persons of mixed ancestry, I have searched all my life for \u201chome\u201d. In late 2012 I relocated to the Los Angeles area after more than two decades in the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City. L.A.\u2019s a good place for in-between-ers like me. In this sprawling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[13469,15960],"class_list":["post-43154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-mari-lesperance","tag-mixed-roots-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43155,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43154\/revisions\/43155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}