Nisei : Summer Jobs
“What? I have to travel 400 km to work all summer? I will call family services!” No, no, that didn’t come out of the...
Category: You Say
Nisei: Internment Camp Life
Greenwood was the first ‘internment centre’ and Tashme was the last. In-between, there were Lemon Creek, Popoff, Bay Farm, New Denver, Rosebery, Sandon and...
You-mo? Me-mo!: Nisei Language and Dialect
I don’t have a PhD in linguistics but I hope that a budding linguist major will get interested in this topic. In Hawaii, the...
THE NISEI HEP CATS
“The day the music died,” from the song American Pie by Don McLean, referred to February 3, 1959, the days Buddy Holly, Richie Valens...
Nisei Courtship: Hubba, Hubba, Shoo, Shoo!
Dion and the Belmonts made the doo wop song famous with Teenagers in Love. We could call this segment ‘Nisei-gers in Love’. Was this...
Cumberland Chow Mein, Denbazuke, Karinto? It’s Nisei Food!
How can you tell a Nisei by looking at the food they eat? Have you heard of Cumberland chow mein, denbazuke, or karinto? In...
How Can You Tell a Nisei?
Issei, Nisei, I Say, You Say The Bulletin is pleased to introduce a new column by Nanaimo-based historian, researcher and author Chuck Tasaka. Having...
