different between issei vs sansei

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.

Borrowed from Japanese ??

sansei (plural sanseis or sansei)

A US- or Canadian-born grandchild of a Japanese immigrant to America.
- 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:
  Under these circumstances it may not be unexpected to have the "assimilationist Sansei" protest that he is not a Japanese-Canadian; he is a Canadian, period. None of this hyphenated stuff.

“sansei”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).

sansei

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