Tag: global identity
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Global identity: The recursive loop
Dr. Rajeswari Natrajan-Tyagi, my mentor-esteemed colleague and friend, and I recently gave a one hour presentation on the topic of parenting in immigrant families to a parent teacher student association (PTSA) in a Southern Californian community. These are parents with middle school aged children. We shared our experiences being immigrants; she, as a recent immigrant…
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Global identity: Living in the old and the new
“Interested in everything, committed to nothing.” – Gregory David Roberts from his novel Shantaram. This statement really speaks to me when I contemplate how personal identity is shifting in the world given globalization. The terms global identity and the global nomad have entered our vocabulary as a result of the shrinking of our planet into…
JENNIFER T. YOUNG, PSY.D. 