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A military brat (colloquial or military slang) is the child of an active-duty military personnel. Military brats are associated with a unique subculture〔David C. Pollock, Ruth E. van Reken. ''Third Culture Kids: Growing Up Among Worlds'', Revised Edition. Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 2009. ISBN 978-1-85788-525-5〕 and cultural identity.〔Chatterjee, Smita. ("Defense Kids In India: Growing Up Differently" ), ''Loving Your Child'' online magazine, December 2010.〕〔Ender, Morton. ''Military Brats and Other Global Nomads''. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002. ISBN 978-0-275-97266-0〕〔Suarez, Theresa Cenidoza. ("The language of militarism: Engendering Filipino masculinity in the U.S. empire" ), ch. 4. University of California, San Diego, 2008. 130 pages, 3320357〕 Military brat's childhood or adolescent life may be immersed in military culture to the point where the mainstream culture of their home country may seem foreign or peripheral.〔〔〔〔 In a number of countries (but not all) where there are military brat subcultures, the child's family moves great distances from one non-combat assignment to another for much of their youth.〔〔〔〔 For highly mobile military brats, a mixed cultural identity often results, due to exposure to numerous national or regional cultures.〔〔〔〔 Within military culture, the term "military brat" is not considered to be a pejorative (as in describing a spoiled child), but rather connotes affection and respect.〔〔〔〔Cranston, CA. ("Challenging Contemporary Ecocritical Place Discourses: Military Brats, Shadow Places, and Homeplace Consumerism" ). ''Indian Journal of Ecocriticism'', V. 2, 2009. pp. 73-89. ISSN 0974-2840〕 War-related family stresses, including long-term war-related absence of a parent, as well as war aftermath issues, are common features of military brat life in some countries, although the degree of war-involvement of individual countries with military brat subcultures may vary.〔〔〔〔 ==Life and culture== A common pattern in these subcultures is a heavy childhood and adolescent immersion in military culture to the point of marginalizing (or having significant feelings of difference in relation to) one's national civilian culture.〔〔〔〔Enloe, Cynthia H. ''Maneuvers: The International Politics of Militarizing Women's Lives'', p. 186. University of California Press; 1st edition, 2000. ISBN 978-0-520-22071-3〕 This is characterized by a strong identification with military culture rather than civilian culture.〔〔〔〔 Another term for this is the "militarization of childhood".〔〔〔〔 In a number of countries where military brat subcultures occur (but with some exceptions and to varying degrees), there may also be an itinerant or modern nomadic lifestyle involved as the child follows their military-parent(s) from military base to military base, in many cases never having a hometown (or at least going through very long periods of being away from one's home town).〔〔〔 It also can involve living outside of one's home country at or near overseas military bases in foreign cultures, or in regions within one's home country far from one's home region, along with experiences of significant cultural difference in either case.〔〔〔Hawkins, John P. ''Army of Hope, Army of Alienation: Culture and Contradiction in the American Army Communities of Cold War Germany''. Praeger, 2001. ISBN 978-0-275-96738-3〕 Highly mobile Military brat subcultures have also been described as modern nomadic or peripatetic subcultures.〔〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Military brat」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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