Kibei

Benjamin Barrett gogaku at IX.NETCOM.COM
Sun Nov 27 21:20:46 UTC 2011


According to http://kpkollenborn.blogspot.com/2010/11/who-are-issei-nisei-kibei-and-sansei.html, it was because they were too Japanese. 

Probably the same as anyone immigrating to the US: Acculturated to Japan, they were unfamiliar with how things worked here and were therefore ridiculed.

BB

On Nov 27, 2011, at 12:30 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:

> 
> On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 1:12 AM, Benjamin Barrett <gogaku at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>> The [kibei] faced discrimination … _when they returned to the US_.
> 
> They did? Why?
> 

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