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nisei
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"American born of Japanese parents," from Japanese ni- "second" + sei "generation." Use limited to U.S. West Coast until c.1942.
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
is a Japanese-language term used in countries in North America and South America to specify the children born in the new country to Japanese-born immigrants (who are called ). The are considered the second generation; and the grandchildren of the Japanese-born ...
Usage examples of nisei.
Under a banner of American concerns: liberty, justice and free enterprise, the seditious Japs portrayed this democracy as a land of lynched Negroes and limited opportunities for coloreds, even though the Nisei were emerging as middle-class merchants when the war broke out.
It was the first and only time in the congress that one of the issei had stood up and trounced one of the nisei in public debate.
And then the troupe was instrumental in discovering and making famous what was later called the Odessa Group, a half-dozen young native playwrights as ferocious as Fugard, men and women who in play after play explored the wrenching problems of the new issei and nisei, and their painful assimilation into the areophany—a million little Romeos and Juliets, a million little blood knots cut or tied.
Decrypts fly out of a line printer on the other end and are taken off to another hut where American nisei, and some white men trained in Nipponese, translate them.
But now with the new AIs, and a continuing stream of new immigrants speaking the full array of Terran languages, it looked like things might broaden back out again, as new nisei stayed with their primary languages and used AIs as their lingua franca instead of English.
Hiroko was mother to everyone in Zygote, but not really-only to Nirgal and Dao and six other of the sansei, and several of the nisei grownups as well.
A good many Bogdanovists, including Steve and Marian, had become Reds in the years since 2061, as had followers of the biologist Schnelling, and some radical Japanese nisei and sansei from Sabishii, and Arabs who wanted Mars to stay Arabian forever, and escaped prisoners from Korolyov, and so on.
Senzeni Na was in the hands of people who called themselves Booneans, though they were not associated with Jackie-they were issei, nisei, sansei, and yonsei, who had immediately named their mohole John Boone, and declared Thaumasia a "Dorsa Brevia Peaceful Neutral Place.
Hiroko was mother to everyone in Zygote, but not really—only to Nirgal and Dao and six other of the sansei, and several of the nisei grownups as well.
Senzeni Na was in the hands of people who called themselves Booneans, though they were not associated with Jackie—they were issei, nisei, sansei, and yonsei, who had immediately named their mohole John Boone, and declared Thaumasia a “Dorsa Brevia Peaceful Neutral Place.
Nisei, sansei, yonsei—whatever generation, they had been formed in large part by their Martian experience—areoformed, just as Hiroko had always foretold.
Nisei, sansei, yonsei-whatever generation, they had been formed in large part by their Martian experience-areoformed, just as Hiroko had always foretold.