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Sensei vs Sansei - What's the difference?

sensei | sansei |

As nouns the difference between sensei and sansei

is that sensei is a martial arts instructor. Sensei of martial arts usually live and/or work at a dojo where they instruct their apprentices. A live-in apprentice is also called uchi-deshi while sansei is a US- or Canadian-born grandchild of a Japanese immigrant to America.

sensei

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A martial arts instructor. Sensei of martial arts usually live and/or work at a dojo where they instruct their apprentices. A live-in apprentice is also called uchi-deshi.
  • (colloquial) a Japanese (language) teacher.

    • Synonyms

    * sifu, shifu

    Anagrams

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    sansei

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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:
    • 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.

    See also

    * issei * nisei

    References

    Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary

    Anagrams

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