Intermarriage

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This paper discusses how intermarriage is one sign of the assimilation of a foreign population in their new country and how such marriages often encounter numerous difficulties, from discrimination to cultural tensions between the husband and wife. It examines how racial intermarriage involves the added difficulty of different racial backgrounds, which also create instances of discrimination and problems fitting into the community. It uses as an example the marriages of Japanese women and American men and examines the particular problems and issues they face such as prejudice.

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"The Japanese community has made clear distinctions among the generations based on origin. The Issei were first-generation immigrants who came to America prior to the Oriental Exclusion Act of 1924, with almost half arriving before 1910. Most were ineligible for American citizenship, and in many states they were forbidden from owning land. Other groups were born in America and were known as Nisei (second-generation) or Sansei (third generation). They held American citizenship because they were born on American soil, and most had been educated in American schools and had been indoctrinated wit democratic principles. A number of the Japanese women married to American men would be issei of a different sort, Japanese war brides brought home by soldiers after World War II ("International Nikkei Research Project," 1999)."

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