different between issei vs nisei

English

Borrowed from Japanese ?? (issei).

issei (plural isseis or issei)

A member of the first generation of Japanese immigrants to North America, South America, or Australia.

From Japanese ?? (???, ?nisei), from ? (ni-, “second”) + ? (sei, “generation”).

nisei (plural niseis or nisei)

an American or Canadian whose parents were Japanese immigrants
- 1978, Gordon Hirabayashi, “Japanese Heritage, Canadian Experience,” in Harold Coward and Leslie S. Kawamura eds., Religion and Ethnicity, Waterloo, Ont.: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, p 66:
  The Nisei, on the other hand, are more inclined to view the hyphenated Japanese Canadian identity with positive implications.

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