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As a child of two immigrants, Anita has a tumultuous relationship with the question: "Where are you from?" So, too, do many third culture kids — people who spend a significant number of their developmental years living in places that are not their parents' homelands. She talks with two third culture kids — one 35 and one 12 — and their moms about growing up between cultures and how they’ve built identity and relationships along the way.

For this summer’s Youth Reporting Institute, reporter Nassibah Bedreddine took a look at how intolerance has facilitated not only cultural assimilation but also cultural loss. She dug into her Algerian family’s history and documented how they are working to preserve their culture.

Transracial adoptees share stories of questioning how and what they were taught about race and identity growing up.