An example of a third culture: Pico Iyer was born in England to Indian parents who moved to California when he was 7. Pico continued his education at Eton and Oxford, and then Harvard. As a journalist he travelled the world. His wife is Japanese where he now lives.
“Japan is therefore an ideal place because I never will be a true citizen here, and will always be an outsider, however long I live here and however well I speak the language. And the society around me is as comfortable with that as I am... I am not rooted in a place, I think, so much as in certain values and affiliations and friendships that I carry everywhere I go; my home is both invisible and portable. But I would gladly stay in this physical location for the rest of my life, and there is nothing in life that I want that it doesn't have.”
An example of a third culture: Pico Iyer was born in England to Indian parents who moved to California when he was 7. Pico continued his education at Eton and Oxford, and then Harvard. As a journalist he travelled the world. His wife is Japanese where he now lives.
“Japan is therefore an ideal place because I never will be a true citizen here, and will always be an outsider, however long I live here and however well I speak the language. And the society around me is as comfortable with that as I am... I am not rooted in a place, I think, so much as in certain values and affiliations and friendships that I carry everywhere I go; my home is both invisible and portable. But I would gladly stay in this physical location for the rest of my life, and there is nothing in life that I want that it doesn't have.”
Pico Iyer quote “For more and more of us, home has really less to do with a piece of soil, than you could say, with a piece of soul."