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Istanbul 2010 blog carnival
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Anastasia Ashman Dec. 31, 2009.

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Thandelike: this paradigm shift (failing social orgs + change) = concept of my neoculture hub expat+HAREM! RT @jnovogratz http://ow.ly/1oNTc #Innovation

Thandelike: @rogueclassicist look into Third Tribe. teaching how to find a business model that works for our unique interest. main platform: blog.

Thandelike: @rogueclassicist livelihood from blogging/exploratoring/awotving(?) sounds good. if you look into yr options you may find a way

Thandelike: @DutchessAbroad also Amsterdam and Berkeley share an ultra progressive mindset (and that seeps into everything else), plus funky style

Thandelike: curmudgeonly Aussie public school parent responds to #Easter field trip as "medieval metaphysic propaganda" http://bit.ly/cBQptm

Thandelike: @DutchessAbroad i am always struck at the similarities of Amsterdam and my hometown of Berkeley

Thandelike: @istanbulblogger happy Saturday, you must be out in the sunshine (little bit brrrr tho)! thanks for the kind #FF...

Thandelike: @endeavoringE @dosankodebbie @IrinaJordan @ExpatCoachMegan @StylemakerTV @EntitiesRUs @FrankeMundo @yazarc @dutchessabroad thanks for RT/FF!

Thandelike: "the monstrousness of trauma makes new monsters, even if they are good ones." /via @AMonstersNovel

Thandelike: .@IsaoKato shares the quandaries of a Japanese Third Culture Kid http://bit.ly/90gKJR #Japan #Malta #Taiwan

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Do you leave home to find yourself, or get lost? http://bit.ly/90gKJR

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new expat+HAREM post: @bazaarbayar asks "How have you reinvented yourself?" http://bit.ly/cVTu1k

March 10

the high-stakes cultural gauntlet of meeting-the-parents in Istanbul, when you're a foreign woman with a Russian name http://bit.ly/95EAhX

March 9

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Ring my bell

This weekend’s live-recorded call in the Dialogue2010 series left me reeling. Ten women scattered in Turkey, the Czech Republic, Italy and four U.S. states came together to discuss mapping the hybrid life, moderated by Rose Deniz. Orchid by A.Ash…

March 3

Is cultural jet lag an inherited trait? http://bit.ly/buOjJ4

March 3

What comes first, the hybrid self or the hybrid life? Are our most resonant peers made or born? http://bit.ly/9u352f

March 2

will you always be a tourist to the locals around you? http://bit.ly/bww0iK

February 25

Being 'grounded' is overratd http://bit.ly/cQYtET

February 18

How has your expatriatism shifted through place — and over time? http://bit.ly/aUeB2X

February 17

how do you express the real you in a foreign language? http://bit.ly/9v6tOQ

February 9

in an emigrant community progress comes through supporting the women http://bit.ly/bmr2ui

February 3

in the absence of context, everything looks like magic http://bit.ly/cS2bOT

January 29

whose cultural standard applies when you break a foreign friend's belonging? http://bit.ly/519dr6

January 24

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Istanbul Turkey

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Type of Blogger

Independent Blogger

The Destination(s) You Blog About and/or Areas of Interest

Istanbul and other Turkish locations
Kuala Lumpur and other Malaysian locations
global citizenry and location independence, identity adventuring, cultural exploration & enterprise
(have two blogs, the second is multi-author http://www.expatharem.com/)

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Walking Tours, Culinary, Wedding Destinations, Women's Travel, Arts and Culture, Photography, Spa Vacations

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Shophouse talk

This week at a global nomad dinner party -- guest list drawn up virtually by a mutual friend who met the diners all over the world -- I had the pleasure of chatting with an artist and his architect wife. Seattle-area residents, they spend a third of their time abroad in places like Kerala, India and the Neapolitan island of Procida, creating public art and advising governments on… Continue

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