Immigrant vs Sansei - What's the difference?
immigrant | sansei |
Of or relating to immigrants or the act of immigrating.
A person who comes to a country from another country in order to permanently settle there.
A plant or animal that establishes itself in an area where it previously did not exist.
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 immigrant and sansei
is that immigrant is a person who comes to a country from another country in order to permanently settle there while sansei is a US- or Canadian-born grandchild of a Japanese immigrant to America.As an adjective immigrant
is of or relating to immigrants or the act of immigrating.immigrant
English
(Immigration)Adjective
(-)Noun
(en noun)Antonyms
* emigrantDerived terms
* landed immigrantSee also
* expatriateAnagrams
* ----sansei
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.