Photo credit: What is a third culture kid? (2017) “Finding a place - Where are you from?” By: Emilio Salaverry When living in the United States, I never felt “American enough”. Similarly, when I moved back to Peru, once again, I had a feeling of rootlessness, not belonging, and not being “Peruvian enough”. Still till this day, I am always asked by my fellow Peruvians or foreigners, where are you from? Sometimes, I ask them to guess and they tell me all kinds of nationalities except for Peruvian or American. Again, confusion and a feeling of not belonging surrounds me. However, a good friend of mine gave me a book titled “Third Culture Kids - Growing Up Among Worlds”. Reading the book, I finally felt understood, my rootlessness was finally grasped and I realized I was a Third Culture Kid (TCK). This term was coined by Ruth Hill Useem in the 1950s, “for children who spend their formative years in places that are not their parents’ homeland.” The good news is that there are a lot of us