Nisei

Word NISEI
Character 5
Hyphenation N/A
Pronunciations /ˈniseɪ/

Definitions and meanings of "Nisei"

What do we mean by nisei?

An American or Canadian whose parents were Japanese immigrants

Refers to an individual of second-generation Japanese descent. Urban Dictionary

The bombest name in the world (of course) - generally used as a "nickname" for names such as: Janise, Sharnise, Bernise, Denise, Latrise, Zanise.....you get the idea. Urban Dictionary

George Takei may be a sansei (third-generation Japanese-American), but's a great-response to the Trump hate-speech, besides his iconic one-liner "Oh My." Urban Dictionary

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The word "nisei" in example sentences

At the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor, thirty-nine thousand nisei American-born children of Japanese immigrants in Hawaii and eighteen thousand in California were enrolled in Japanese-language schools. ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)

Their two nisei translators had such flawed grammar and old-fashioned idioms that their efforts did not fool anyone, least of all the enemy. ❋ Jennet Conant (2011)

Often compared to short-story masters such as Katherine Mansfield, Flannery O'Connor and Grace Paley, Ms. Yamamoto concentrated her imagination on the issei and nisei, the first- and second-generation Japanese Americans who were targets of the public hysteria unleashed after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. ❋ Elaine Woo (2011)

She wove intercultural conflicts and bonds into "Seventeen Syllables" 1949, in which a nisei girl's blooming romance with a Mexican American classmate offers an achingly innocent counterpoint to her mother's arranged marriage. ❋ Elaine Woo (2011)

The MO staff included a nisei second-generation Japanese American named Tokie Slocum, who served as their resident expert, responsible for conjuring up the mind of the typical Japanese soldier and assessing what strategies would be most effective in playing on his emotions and superstitions and undermining his morale. ❋ Jennet Conant (2011)

In today's paper, Mr. Tanabe's grandson reflects on what the degree means to him and his generation: I am proud of the nisei — my grandfather's generation — who responded to the prejudice of internment with actions of strength and honor. ❋ Kateelliott (2008)

How many times have you read that “the US Government” interned the nisei? ❋ Unknown (2010)

A combination that would surely raise the eyebrows of any pre-nisei Japanese, but has somehow got both Jeni and I craving it. ❋ E D B M (2009)

Yeah, that's the subject of an anecdote in Jack Seward's wonderful Japanese in Action: he visits a hot spring with a nisei friend who speaks no Japanese but (obviously) looks Japanese, while Seward himself is fluent; the owner addresses all his remarks to the woman, ignoring the fact that Seward has to translate them all for her (and then translate her responses for him). ❋ Unknown (2005)

While I think you are right to link it to the increase of nisei going into politics, but I'm wondering though I'm not sure how to go about finding a way to support it if there is a linkage between the usage of shibai among Okinawans and the rise of this term. ❋ Unknown (2004)

There were some 23,606 nisei of draft age in the camps. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Nearly 10,000 Hawaiian nisei second generation Japanese-Americans volunteered and over 2,600 were accepted. ❋ Unknown (2004)

And from the mainland the Japanese from the internment camps, only 1,256 nisei volunteered. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The island boys were known as "buddhaheads" a pidgin English and Japanese term, buta-head, meaning "pig headed", and the nisei mainlanders were called "kotonks" or "stone head". ❋ Unknown (2004)

My nisei dad (from good ole uchinanchu stock) said that shibai in the form of plays done by issei were something he remembered and enjoyed (though he hated going to J-school on saturdays) though the nisei never put on plays like this. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Both of my parents were [born] and [raised] [in Japan], but I was born in a different country after they immigrated, so that makes me a Nisei. ❋ Maverick277 (2005)

Girl: Heeeeeeeey [Nisey] ! Nisey: [Wass] Poppin' biiiiiiiitch !? Girl: Shit. Nisey: [Mah nigga]. ❋ Im THAT Bitch! (2013)

[Oh My]! Nisei Please, [Mr]. [Trump]! ❋ Showa 96 The Ham-eating Crusader808 (2016)

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