Anyone else taking advantage of the immense flexibility/dexterity of holding multiple cultures in one personality? Hello, im a mid 30s third culture dude who moved countries at age 13.
I find reflecting on my life there is a massive payoff that comes from the early development of moving at a young age. My personality has range for insight and general dexterity more than the average person who lived in one country. I tend to not be so tentative about breaking cultural rules and have the freedom to be creative compared to people who settle for 'this is the way things are'. I am more tactile with how I use language when it comes to humor, argument and speech in general since I can see the same ideas express completely differently across languages. Ofcourse my personality formed later than my peers who had the stability of continuity but I think I would have been much less of a person if I didnt go through the immigrant experience - even at the cost of what I could've been if I didn't relocate.