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Word: yellowfolk (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...emigrated from Japan to the U. S. too fast, are now excluded. Smart, the sons of Nippon are not making that mistake again in Brazil. A sheaf of figures just released at Rio de Janeiro shows that only 11,231 Japanese immigrated last year-and they were not little yellowfolk but big, brown, burly. The Imperial Japanese Government knows the reason-is the reason-why strapping Japanese exclusively are entering Brazil in a slow but sure procession. "It is considered," reads a suave semi-official bulletin from the Home Office at Tokyo, "that great injustice would be done to nations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Big Brown Japs | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

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