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Kibei

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Ki·bei  (k-b)
n. pl. Kibei or Ki·beis
A person born in the United States of Japanese immigrant parents and educated chiefly in Japan.
[Japanese, to go home, return to America, Kibei : ki, return (from Middle Chinese kuj) + bei, rice, America (from Middle Chinese mej, rice).]


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Jitterbugs, hep-cats and just plain hard working war workers have replaced the nervous Nisei, the shrinking Issei and the intolerant Kibei.
Transgressing race and community in Chester Himes's If He Hollers Let ... by Itagaki, Lynn M. / African American Review
For instance, a more detailed study of Kibei, (Japanese-educated Nisei) is necessary to comprehend Japanese American history in all its complexity, since, as Okihiro points out in his paper, the Kibei have been equated with troublemakers since the internment.
WHAT DID THE INTERNMENT OF JAPANESE AMERICANS MEAN? by HIRAISHI, TAEKO INAGI / Pacific Affairs
Abe was a Kibei Nisei born in the United States of Japanese immigrant parents and educated in Japan.
Multiethnic Japan and the monoethnic myth by Murphy-Shigematsu, Stephen / MELUS
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