Rewriting Airplane Conversations: How The Lives of Cross-Cultural Kids Reframe and Embody Globalization
Date of Award
12-1-2022
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts major in Sociology
First Advisor
Jose Jowel P. Canuday, DPhil (Oxon.)
Abstract
The existence of the Cross-Cultural Kid and their navigation of various cultural worlds challenges the common notion of globalization. This study argues that such individuals embody the reality of constant cultural interchange among heterogeneous cultures both within and without national as well as geographical boundaries. In discussing this emergent phenomenon, ethnographic methodology was utilized, with in-depth interview sessions and discursive analysis of the qualitative data gathered. Four participants were interviewed for up to four hours per session for a total of four sessions with each participant. With particular focus on CCKs of Filipino heritage, it was found that such persons are initially limited in their exercise of agency at the impetus of exposure to a cross-cultural life by the agency exercised by their own parents, such agency only further developed by the individual‟s learning of various forms of transportation. The consumption or engagement of various cultural elements from various cultures they have lived in provide the means in their development of cross-cultural identity. Most notably, the parents presume that their child will learn about Filipino culture over time, whether or not they intentionally pass on such cultural knowledge. This confirms that CCKs present a more grounded and realistic form of globalization, that such individuals are in a unique position to view cultural interchange less as an abstraction and more as a dynamic reality between cultures.
Recommended Citation
Alfeche, Jan Rupert I., (2022). Rewriting Airplane Conversations: How The Lives of Cross-Cultural Kids Reframe and Embody Globalization. Archīum.ATENEO.
https://archium.ateneo.edu/theses-dissertations/1029
