Gosei (Japanese diaspora)

History

The earliest organized group of Japanese emigrants settled in Mexico in 1897. Today, the four largest populations of Japanese and descendants of Japanese immigrants live in the United States, Canada, Brazil and Peru. Gosei is a term used in these geographic areas outside Japan. Gosei characterizes the child of at least one Yonsei (fourth generation) parent. Differences among these national Gosei developed because of the varying historical processes through which their Japanese emigrant forebears became Nikkei.

''Gosei'' in the US

Main article: Japanese Americans

Main article: Japanese American history

The lives of Japanese-Americans of earlier generations contrast with the Gosei generation and beyond, who often lack a single surving grandparent with firsthand memory of the culture. According to a 2011 columnist in The Rafu Shimpo of Los Angeles, "Younger Japanese Americans are more culturally American than Japanese" and "other than some vestigial cultural affiliations, a Yonsei or Gosei is simply another American."

American descendants of Wakamatsu colonist Masumizu Kuninosuke are in the seventh generation through his marriage to a mixed African-Native American woman in 1877, some who only discovered the ancestry of their 1/64th ancestor through a DNA test.

''Gosei'' in Canada

Main article: Japanese Canadians

Japanese-Canadian Gosei are entirely acculturated, as is typical for any ethnic group.

''Gosei'' in Peru

Main article: Japanese Peruvians

Japanese-Peruvian (Nipo-peruano) Gosei made up less than 1.0% of the Nikkei population in 2000. They are represented by the Asociación Peruano Japonesa.

''Gosei'' in Brazil

Main article: Japanese Brazilians

Japanese-Brazilians (Nipo-brasileiro) make up the largest Japanese population in South America, numbering an estimated less than 242,543 (including those of mixed-race or mixed-ethnicity), more in the 1.8 million in the United States. The Gosei are a small part of the ethnic minority in that South American nation in the last decades of the 20th century. In 1990, 0.8% of the Nipo-Brasileiros community were Gosei.

Cultural profile

Generations

Main article: Japanese diaspora

The term Nikkei (日系) encompasses all of the world's Japanese immigrants across generations. In North America, the Gosei are among the heirs of the "activist generation" known as the Sansei.

Notes

References

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