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What is your date of birth?

What grade are you in?

What's your gender?

Male

Female

What nationality is your passport?

Is your passport country the same as your parents?

Yes

What is your mother's passport country?

What is your father's passport country?

Is your passport country the same as your siblings?

Yes.

No.

Don't have siblings.

How long have you lived in China?

How long have you attended SMIC Private School?

Are you familiar with the term Third Culture Kids (TCKs)?

Yes

A Third Culture Kid is someone who moves to another country with their parents and spends time growing up in a different culture from their home culture. Based on that definition, do you think you are a TCK?

Yes

How many cities/countries has your family moved to so far?

Which city/country do you consider "home"? Please explain.

How comfortable do you feel with the following:

	Very Uncomfortable	Uncomfortable	Comfortable	Very Comfortable
Speaking Putonghua	Very Uncomfortable	Uncomfortable	Comfortable	Very Comfortable

Eating Chinese food	Very Uncomfortable	Uncomfortable	Comfortable	Very Comfortable

Making friends with Chinese locals	Very Uncomfortable	Uncomfortable	Comfortable	Very Comfortable

In the Chinese culture	Very Uncomfortable	Uncomfortable	Comfortable	Very Comfortable

What aspect do you find most difficult about living outside your passport country?

What types of issues do you face as a TCK (Select all that apply)?

Confused Loyalties (which country to support and defend, what values to hold)

Unawareness of Home Culture (not able to keep up with current events/trends)

Too Adaptable (lack a sense of what is concrete and absolute)

Difficulty Making Decisions (because a more desirable possibility may appear)

Mistrustful of Authority (life changing decisions made without your input)

Rootlessness (feel like you're from neither here nor there)

Difficulty Making Close Friends (afraid of loosing them)

Confused Sense of Identity (who am I and where do I belong?)

Languistic Challenges (multi-lingual, but lacks mastery in any language)

Relating to non-TCKs (they seem less mature or world conscious)

Loss (of relationships, lifestyle, possessions, a role model, etc)

Loneliness

Anger

Other

What are the benefits of growing up abroad? What unique qualities have you developed that students in your home country don't have?

How frequently do you communicate with people in your home country? How do you communicate with them (letters, phone calls, email, etc)?

To what degree do you feel about the following:

	Disagree	Partially Disagree	Partially Agree	Agree
When I moved here SMIC helped me adjust to living in China	Disagree	Partially Disagree	Partially Agree	Agree

I wish SMIC had more opportunities for TCKs to get together	Disagree	Partially Disagree	Partially Agree	Agree

I wish I could talk one-on-one with an adult at SMIC about my adjustment to China	Disagree	Partially Disagree	Partially Agree	Agree

Are there any areas you feel SMIC could do a better job in supporting TCKs? Please explain.

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