Their Issei parents, who had not completely accustomed to the English language or the American customs, usually needed to address their Nisei children for cultural or linguistic interpretation. ... This is another difference between the two generations: because the older Japanese could not really assimilate themselves into the mainstream life of Americans, they stayed strictly Japanese immigrants who lived in America. ...

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