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Three things TCKs taught me not to take for granted

By: katelynskyebennett 2016-02-272016-02-27

culture, peopleblessings, college, friends, geography, international students, language, life lessons, TCK, terminology, third culture kids, time, United States, worldLeave a Comment

If you know international students or have friends who are third culture kids (TCKs), you know you can’t take anything for granted—not the terms or phrases you use, not your understanding of geographical knowledge and especially not your time spent together. Language. Catchphrases are cultural, so you may have to ask questions about what an…

What does it mean to be White in the United States? A personal account.

By: katelynskyebennett 2015-07-16

race and reconciliationassumptions, color, connected, impact, introspection, language, race relations, self-knowledge, skin, sociology, status, white, WhitenessLeave a Comment

How often do you think about the color of your skin? How often do you notice the ways it affects how people treat you? I am White, and I try to think about this every day. I surely do not have to think about my Whiteness. I didn’t realize it until about a year and…

The Gospel in its simple beauty (John 3:16, Kinyarwanda translation)

By: katelynskyebennett 2015-06-012015-11-14

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I love the Rwandan translation of the Bible. Kinyarwanda is my favorite language right now, and although I don’t know much of it, I can understand some familiar Scripture passages by comparing phrases to my English Bible and using my two dictionaries. (I have one print Kinyarwanda-English dictionary and one on an app, and I…