Definitions
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- noun A US-born
grandchild of aJapanese immigrant toAmerica .
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Examples
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Now why would they want to talk to Mr. Wohler, a seemingly respected sansei?
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I would be a sansei, which means third generation.
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Her name was Mika Kasunari and she was sansei, third-generation American of Japanese descent.
Noble House Clavell, James 1981
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But this third-generation Japanese-American, or sansei, takes part in its production out of respect for tradition and to help mark Oshogatsu, what the
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The play by Scot Izuka explores the mix and clash of cultures through Jerome, a sansei from Hawaii; Yan, a Taiwanese; Cathy, from the Midwest; and Rei, a Japanese national.
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My grandchildren will be American sansei in Japan, unless one of my children or their children has children with someone of yet another nationality and so carries on that grand wandering that is native to the human family.
PureLandMountain.com 2009
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The play by Scot Izuka explores the mix and clash of cultures through Jerome, a sansei from Hawaii; Yan, a Taiwanese; Cathy, from the Midwest; and Rei, a Japanese national.
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The play by Scot Izuka explores the mix and clash of cultures through Jerome, a sansei from Hawaii; Yan, a Taiwanese; Cathy, from the Midwest; and Rei, a Japanese national.
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The play by Scot Izuka explores the mix and clash of cultures through Jerome, a sansei from Hawaii; Yan, a Taiwanese; Cathy, from the Midwest; and Rei, a Japanese national.
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Since I am of Japanese ancestry (yonsei … actually between sansei and yonsei), I have always had an interest in the culture.
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