"A third-culture kid (TCK / 3CK) or trans-culture kid is "someone who, as a child, has spent a significant period of time in one or more culture(s) other than his or her own, thus integrating elements of those cultures and their own birth culture, into a third culture."TCKs tend to have more in common with one another, regardless of nationality, than they do with non-TCKs from their own country.