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Sociology 20H - Chapter 13
Ethnic Relations
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Undergraduate 2
11/02/2010

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Tsu
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Clans established along family lines and forming a basis for social organization by Chinese Americans
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Hui Kuan
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Chinese American benevolent associations organized on the basis of the district of the immigrants origin in China
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Tongs
Definition
Chinese American secret associations
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cultural capital
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noneconomic forces such as family background and past investments in education that are then reflected in knowledge about the arts and language
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social capital
Definition
collective benefits of durable social networks and their patterns of reciprocal trust
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Issei
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First-generation immigrants from Japan to the US
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Nisei
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Children born of immigrants from Japan
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Sansei
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The children of the Nisei-that is, the grandchildren of the original immigrants from Japan
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Yonsei
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The fourth generation of Japanese Americans in the US; the children of the Sansei
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Kibei
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Japanese Americans of the Nisei generation sent back to Japan for schooling and to have marriages arranged
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evacuees
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Japanese Americans interned in camps for the duration of World War II
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evacuees
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Japanese Americans interned in camps for the duration of World War II
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