tions are seen as impure. Nowhere is
             this more apparent than in the condemnation of the Suzuki family for the
             mother's role as a prostitute. That she slept with Fillipinos further
             contributes to her condemnation; such people are referred to as chorimbo.'
             The backgrounds of the issei, most of whom arrived between 1915 and
             1924, was one of small entrepreneurial families and farmers in southern
             Japan. Although the Meiji dynasty's reforms had brought some knowledge of
             western liberalism to some of these people, most were steeped in tradition.
             Women had not attended school only a few decades before; only a select few
             attended high schools. Most of the women were in their late teens to mid-
             twenties when they arrived in America, most of the men were ten years
             older. Women came to meet up with men who had lived for some years in the
             US and who were employed as a wage lab
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