Other Otherings

I'd like to thank the host for inviting me to contribute to this blog. This is certainly a site that I have admired and found to be thought provoking since I discovered it. I only hope I can contribute sufficient fodder to keep all of us, not only the like-minded, thinking.

I am a third generation Irish-American who has spent extended stays in Ireland as a youth and during a year abroad at college. We have had extensive interaction with our family in Ireland, but none at all with the family in Australia.

I have lived as an expatriate in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and Ireland. My year in Hawaii was not expatriation, but it was very definitely a cross cultural experience.

My first offering will follow shortly.