Japanese who emigrate and live abroad are
called issei (first-generation), and their children born
abroad are called nisei (second-generation), sansei
(third-generation), yonsei (fourth-generation), etc. For
Nikkei (foreign of Japanese descent) Brazilians, these different
levels of generations do not measure how strongly Japanese a person
feels. In other words, a generational label is not an accurate
predictor of how "Brazilianized" a Japanese-Brazilian
living in Brazil will judge himself or herself to be, nor is it
an accurate predictor of how "Japanized" such a person
will become after moving to Japan.
Nonetheless, Nikkei Brazilians who move to Japan all seem to search
for their Brazilianness to a greater extend than they did when
they were living in Brazil. This is particularly true for people
who are "pure" Japanese by descent and who are phenotypically
"East Asian". Such people are often called simply "Japanese"
in Brazil, and they often express their Brazilian patriotism vehemently.
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Interviews at the "Brasil Futsal"