Crossword clues for sansei
sansei
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"American born of nisei parents; third-generation Japanese-American," 1945, from Japanese san "three, third" + sei "generation."
Wiktionary
n. A US- or Canadian-born grandchild of a Japanese immigrant to America.
Wikipedia
is a Japanese and American English term used in parts of the world such as South America and North America to specify the children of children born to Japanese people in the new country. The nisei are considered the second generation, grandchildren of the Japanese-born immigrants are called Sansei and the fourth generation yonsei. The children of at least one nisei parent are called Sansei.
The character and uniqueness of the sansei is recognized in its social history.
Usage examples of "sansei".
There were twelve sansei or third-generation children in Zygote, and they knew each other like brothers and sisters and many of them were, but not all.
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.
They had brought them up poorly, the ectogenes and that whole sansei generation-almost forty now, and itching for a fight.
The sansei and yonsei were all strange to Maya, but Diana much less than most-a bit private perhaps, but compared to her more exotic contemporaries, and the Zygote kids, welcomely ordinary.
But come on-you must want a bath and some food, and then if you could talk to some of the sansei and yonsei who have gone into hiding with us, that would be good for them.
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.
They had brought them up poorly, the ectogenes and that whole sansei generation—almost forty now, and itching for a fight.
The sansei and yonsei were all strange to Maya, but Diana much less than most—a bit private perhaps, but compared to her more exotic contemporaries, and the Zygote kids, welcomely ordinary.
But come on—you must want a bath and some food, and then if you could talk to some of the sansei and yonsei who have gone into hiding with us, that would be good for them.
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.