13. Most of the Nisei didn’t show much interest in Japanese culture, while the Issei parents …

The Nisei’s were more interested in, of course, the western style things, and then the Issei’s were more interested in Japanese things, so it was sort of half and half. But I think it was more towards the western than Japanese. It was only among the Issei’s with the more Japanese things. I think most of the Nisei’s tried to stay away from the Japanese culture. Not that they didn’t like it but they didn’t show much interest, most of them. But it was the parents who wanted their children to learn something of Japanese culture. That’s how I think they had to sort of force to study Japanese dance.

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