In a way, we are all performers; we perform the roles that is expected of us or suits us depending on the occasion. In my personal experience, more often than not I am never desired for the whole of me, and that fact sometimes play to my advantage, sometimes at my peril.

The idea of a fluid identity and the autonomy to negotiate one’s full or preferred self is central in my investigation of the third-culture’s — or simply, multi-culture people’s — way of communication.

The power to choose one’s identity regardless of social, political and place expectations. The power to negotiate that choice.

I want to reinforce that beyond the conventional definitions of "language" defined by Oxford Languages — the principal method of human communication, consisting of words used in a structured and conventional way and conveyed by speech, writing, or gesture — here the nature of language and the significance of it also shifts.

For the third culture, language is a tool they have come to learn as a way to communicate and achieve their goals. For the third culture kids, language is a means for survival and recognition of identity. For the Culture 3.0, I believe language is at least all that, but also a medium for their mutative identities; the role of language seeps into their cognition, their acts, and with the change of language so does their being change, and this process is much faster, much more seamless than most realize.

*language and cognition will be an important point of investigation for the coming year.