Word: nisei
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...oldest, the Japanese-born Issei, were reserved, puritanical people, who clung to an old country belief in hard work, personal integrity and obedience to tradition. They felt a sense of loyalty to Japan and had grave misgivings about the flipness, the new and careless attitudes of U.S.-born Nisei. Pearl Harbor had filled them with indecision. Many wanted Japan to win the war, but they did not want the U.S.-the country in which their children would go on living-to lose. ¶The Nisei had grown away from the Japanese beliefs that they had been taught as children, felt...
...Kibei, young Japanese born in the U.S. but educated in the old country, found themselves in conflict with both Issei and Nisei. Most older Japanese considered them dissolute, domineering upstarts. Nisei, fresh from U.S. schools, considered them foreign-minded people...
Racism in Canada is even more virulent and vigorous than in the U.S. We have had pitiful pleas from Japanese-Canadians and Caucasian-Canadian friends of the Canadian Nisei asking if some pressure might not be brought to bear by America on the Canadian...
...Reader Buck has overstated her case. For instance: McGill is the only Canadian university which bans Canadian Japanese, and indications are that the ban will be lifted; Toronto recently licensed a Nisei beauty-parlor operator; all Ontario cities but Toronto are at present open to Canadian Japanese...
...past month there had been seven, cases of violence against Nisei in the San Joaquin Valley. It seemed time for at least a gesture of law & order. Rancher Multanen was arrested, charged with "rude and threatening...