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First-generation immigrants are the first foreign-born family members to gain citizenship or permanent residency in the country. [2] People beyond the first generation are not "immigrants" in the strictest sense of the word and, depending on local laws, may have received citizenship from birth .
Issei (一世, "first generation") is a Japanese-language term used by ethnic Japanese in countries in North America and South America to specify the Japanese people who were the first generation to immigrate there. Originally, as mentioned above, these words were themselves common nouns in Japan referred to generations or reigns.
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. Gen Alpha speaks in confusing slang ...
Born right smack on the cusp of millennial and Gen Z years (ahem, 1996), I grew up both enjoying the wonders of a digital-free world—collecting snail shells in my pocket and scraping knees on my ...
These two terms are just a taste of Gen Alpha slang words. Generation Alpha, AKA people who were born between 2010 and 2024, have grown up amid a digital revolution. Instagram launched, the word ...
These are formed by combining one of the Japanese numbers corresponding to the generation with the Japanese word for generation (sei 世). The Japanese-American and Japanese-Canadian communities have themselves distinguished their members with terms like Issei , Nisei, and Sansei which describe the first, second and third generation of immigrants.
The word generate comes from the Latin generāre, meaning "to beget". [4] The word generation as a group or cohort in social science signifies the entire body of individuals born and living at about the same time, most of whom are approximately the same age and have similar ideas, problems, and attitudes (e.g., Beat Generation and Lost Generation).