nikkeijin

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• Both the migrants and their hosts were creating more restrictive and mutually exclusive identities based on an enhanced awareness of their national differences, where the Japanese feel more ethnically Japanese in response to the nikkeijin, and the nikkeijin feel more ethnically Brazilian in response to the Japanese.

  Academic text (1998)

• My extended stay in Brazil, my proficiency in Portuguese, and my ethnic status as a fellow nikkeijin from America would certainly lead to ready access and acceptance by the Japanese-Brazilians, as I had already experienced in Brazil.

  Academic text (1998)

• As a result, there was little incentive for the Japanese to establish personal relationships with the nikkeijin and vice versa.

  Academic text (1998)

• In fact, I initially had more concerns about possible rapport problems with the Brazilian nikkeijin in Japan than with the Japanese.

  Academic text (1998)

• However, when in the company of Japanese, I would adopt a detached and critical perspective toward the Brazilian nikkeijin.

  Academic text (1998)

• All that really mattered was that the Brazilian nikkeijin continued working diligently, and so far they had done so without causing any real problems.

  Academic text (1998)

• Even at a group level, however, I certainly had much closer relationships with the Japanese than the other nikkeijin workers, and many Toyama workers were willing to speak to me individually on the assembly line and answer questions, sometimes quite frankly.

  Academic text (1998)

• I would avoid introducing myself ethnically as a "nikkeijin," but as someone who was "born in America" (amerika umare) or "from America" (amerika shusshin).

  Academic text (1998)

• My inner self was always in dynamic flux in the field as I engaged in a continuous process of identification and distancing from both my Japanese and nikkeijin informants, resulting in multiple perspectives and differential knowledge commensurate with the ethnic diversity of my field site.

  Academic text (1998)

• Many nikkeijin in Brazil celebrate their Japanese heritage through cultural festivals and traditional practices.

Synonyms

N

Nikkei

vsnikkeijin

1 8.5

A person whose family comes from Japan but lives in another country

can mean one person or a whole group of people living outside Japan

Surface Forms

Etymology