Grandchild vs Sansei - What's the difference?
grandchild | sansei |
A child of someone's child.
* 1912 , :
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:
As nouns the difference between grandchild and sansei
is that grandchild is a child of someone's child while sansei is a us- or canadian-born grandchild of a japanese immigrant to america.grandchild
English
(wikipedia grandchild)Noun
(grandchildren)- ...he fell into amazement when he thought of the Herculean labours those fifteen pairs of hands had performed: of the cows they had milked, the butter they had made, the gardens they had planted, the children and grandchildren they had tended, the brooms they had worn out, the mountains of food they had cooked. It made him dizzy.
Hyponyms
* granddaughter * grandsonAntonyms
* (with regard to ancestry) grandparentsansei
English
Noun
(en noun)- 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.