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“Students cited name changing as a potent example of the process of accepting an identity change. Sometimes the students themselves initiated the name change, and sometimes it was imposed.”

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“... the contest for the top spot was a competition between the cultural capital of the Western students and the economic capital of students from the local elite. Those who are socialized in Western ways have the advantage of being familiar with the culture of the staff; Indonesian-speaking students counter this by making a show of their economic capital.”

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“proximity to the local compromises the international feel of the school”

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“The parents from the local population were mostly mothers, while the foreign parents, who were usually from a more developed country and white, were fathers. This was typical also of cross-cultural couples in Jakarta and among parents of TIS students. Even when the mother was not Indonesian, she would often be from a less-developed country than the father.”

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“(Tim and Maura’s)... positionality shifts depending on whether they have more or less Western capital compared to the dominant majority in the given context. Their racially ambiguous physical appearance affects the way others perceive and treat them as well as how secure they feel in different contexts.”

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“Transnational youth, like Levi, are not the embodied beacon of a 'happy hybridity': they embody the burden of social hierarchies that reflect national and transnational economic hierarchies (Lo 2000: 153).”

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“The dominant culture has the power to define the rules of the game, while others must either play by those rules or contest them in their attempts to decrease their sense of marginalization.”

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"'Being international' is not just an ideal; it is a strategic positioning of oneself within a complex intersection of hierarchies.”

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“Those with Western capital construct themselves as international while simultaneously reinforcing the dominant position of Western capital by contrasting themselves with the cosmopolitan blackness, so to speak, of the non-English-speaking language groups.”

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“cosmopolitanism is institutionalized as cultural capital in all its diverse forms.”

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“To be international, students had to have what I collectively refer to as (Western) cosmopolitan cultural and social capital. The ideology of being international was a Eurocentric form of cosmopolitanism, reflecting the contemporary ‘global currency of whiteness’”

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“Some students were favorably positioned to acquire cosmopolitan capital because they were fluent in English and had acquired Western capital through their home or school environment.”

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“The school’s ideology of being international promotes an idea of social cohesion through which a global community was imagined, but it also reproduces both national and transnational class structures through the privileging of Western capital.”

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“Whether or not someone is cosmopolitan lies in the eyes of the beholder.”

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“… being cosmopolitan, in this Western sense, is an ideal that has to be constantly desired and sought after, though it can never be reached. It is ‘by feeling qualified to yearn for such a position’ that people are identified as cosmopolitan.”

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“The school’s… ideology promoted a deracialized, colorblind view of the world, but its cosmopolitan practices are dependent on the visibility of racial differences. The cultural sameness of those with Western capital was rendered invisibly by their racial diversity.”

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Celebration of Diversity as Happy Hybridity

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Celebration of Diversity as Happy Hybridity

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“… this celebration of diversity as ‘happy hybridity,’ which pays little heed to the ‘tension, conflict, or contradiction’ inherent in intercultural encounters and thereby ‘masks and perpetuates structural inequalities.’”

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“The school’s ideology of being international universalizes a Western construct of cosmopolitanism. It created a hierarchy of cosmopolitan practices. Students completed to be ‘international’ within the confines of the dominant form of cosmopolitanism as represented by the school’s ideology of being international. Alternative forms of cosmopolitanism were relegated to an inferior position by virtue of not being recognized as ‘international.’”

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“The way transnational youth engage with the ideology of being international reveals the complex nature of the whiteness of being international, as well as the way relations of power are reproduced as patterns within a pattern like fractals. More significantly, this study of transnational youth highlights the diversity of cosmopolitan practices.”

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“This book has analyzed the complex set of factors that make transnational youth a heterogeneous group, but an exploration of their differences, it must be remembered, was made possible by first acknowledging their shared experience of liminality in their transnational upbringing.”

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Maura: “we all kind of have a collective culture together.”

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“Names can serve as a gateway to another world, another fragment of a person.” 

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“Names can serve as a gateway to another world, another fragment of a person.” 

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Sexual desirability is embedded within social hierarchies.