IDENTIFY YOURSELF

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a personal poster adressing “third culture kids” and the concept of “belonging” to a country you don’t identify with.

Identify Yourself is a personal confrontation with national identity and the tension between belonging and displacement. I grew up with parents in government service, moving frequently and living across multiple countries. When we eventually returned to the United States—a country I was born in but had never truly lived in—I experienced an unexpected sense of non-belonging, despite my American nationality.

Later, when I moved to Doha to complete my education, I found community among other “third culture kids”—individuals raised across cultures who do not fully identify with any single homeland. Encountering this term gave language and meaning to a feeling I had carried for years. What once felt like isolation became shared experience. I realized that my confusion around identity was not a personal failure, but a common condition of growing up between cultures, and that feeling displaced—even in one’s country of origin—could be understood, named, and held with purpose.