Chapter 4: The Co-Ethnic Nuclear Family

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One of the things that interested me the most after reading chapter four was the co-ethnic nuclear families. Japanese and Korean people used a system named picture bride were a women who lived in japan would get marry with men who lived in America without knowing each other. Basically both men and women would give a picture of them self’s and their information then they would perform a ceremony and they would get marry. The whole purpose for this was for the couples to submit a passport application to the immigration station but the husband needs it to show proofs of savings and identity at the immigration station.
Women hope was to come to the United States like any other person to get an education or experience something new. Instead women

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