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The term "second-generation" extends the concept of first-generation by one generation. As such, the term exhibits the same type of ambiguity as "first-generation," as well as additional ones. Like "first-generation immigrant", the term "second-generation" can refer to a member of either:
Issei (一世, "first generation") are Japanese immigrants to countries in North America and South America. The term is used mostly by ethnic Japanese. Issei are born in Japan; their children born in the new country are nisei (ni, "two", plus sei, "generation"); and their grandchildren are sansei (san, "three", plus sei, "generation").
First-generation college students in the United States, college students whose parents did not attend college; First-generation immigrant, a citizen or resident who is an immigrant or has immigrant parents; Generation 1 (NASCAR), generation of cars 1948–1966; Generation 1 in Pokémon, see List of generation I Pokémon
Gen Z was born between 1997 and 2012 and is considered the first generation to have largely grown up using the internet, modern technology and social media. Members of Gen Z are sometimes known as ...
The first generation of Muslims are called the companions of Muhammad. The second generation of Muslims are called tābi‘ūn "Successors". The third generation are called tabi‘ū al-tabi‘īn "successors of the Successors". [1] The three generations make up the Salaf, the "Ancestors", of Islam.
Literal translation, direct translation, or word-for-word translation is the translation of a text done by translating each word separately without analysing how the words are used together in a phrase or sentence. [1] In translation theory, another term for literal translation is metaphrase (as opposed to paraphrase for an analogous translation).
Sansei (三世, "third generation") is a Japanese and North American English term [1] used in parts of the world (mainly in South America and North America) to refer to the children of children born to ethnically Japanese emigrants in a new country of residence, outside of Japan.
The Babylonians were the first to establish translation as a profession. [19] The first translations of Greek and Coptic texts into Arabic, possibly indirectly from Syriac translations, [20] seem to have been undertaken as early as the late seventh century CE. [21] The second Abbasid Caliph funded a translation bureau in Baghdad in the eighth ...