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What type of cross-cultural kid are you?
You grew up between worlds. This quiz helps you figure out exactly which type - and you might be more than one. Based on the research of Ruth Van Reken. Takes 90 seconds.
Did you grow up living outside your parents' home country?
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A
Yes — we lived abroad
B
No — we always lived in my parents' home country
C
We moved between countries within our family's own cultures
If your family lived abroad or moved, why was that?
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A
A parent's job — military, diplomatic, corporate, missionary or NGO
B
My parents chose to permanently emigrate to a new country
C
My family was forced to leave due to war, persecution or crisis
D
This doesn't apply — we didn't move abroad
Were your parents from the same cultural or racial background?
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A
No — my parents came from two different cultures or racial backgrounds
B
Yes — both parents shared the same background
C
Mostly the same but with some cultural differences
Were you adopted from a different country than the one you were raised in?
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A
Yes
B
No
Growing up, did your parents belong to a racial or ethnic minority group in the country where you lived?
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A
Yes — my family's background was different from the majority around us
B
Somewhat — we were a minority in some contexts but not all
C
No — my family's background matched the majority culture
Did you move between different cultural communities within your home country — regions or worlds that felt genuinely foreign to each other?
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A
Yes — moving within my home country felt like crossing cultural borders
B
Somewhat — there were differences but it didn't feel dramatic
C
No — moves within my country felt culturally similar
How would you describe your experience of home growing up?
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A
Home changed with every move — it was a feeling, not a place
B
Home was where my parents were from but I often felt like an outsider there
C
Home felt split — I belonged to two worlds but fully to neither
D
Home was complicated from the start — displacement shaped everything
When you visited your parents' home country, how did it feel?
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A
Foreign — I looked like I belonged but didn't feel it
B
Partially familiar — one part of me fit, another didn't
C
I didn't really have a single home country to return to
D
It felt like home, even if some things had changed
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