There was relatively little intermarriage during the Nisei generation, partly because the war and the unconstitutionalSklansky, David (2016-11-18). Japanese Internment Case Not "Good Law". Stanford Law School. Retrieved 2020-09-06. incarcerationDensho.org. Terminology.. Retrieved 2020-09-06. of these American citizens intervened exactly at a time when the group was of marrying age. Identification of them with the enemy by the American public, made them unpopular and unlikely candidates for interracial marriage. Besides this, they were thrown, en masse, into concentration campsEncyclopaedia Britannica. Concentration camp. Retrieved 2020-09-06.Lachman, Joseph Shoji (2017-02-20). FDR Called Them Concentration Camps: Why Terminology Matters. Retrieved 2020-09-06. with others of the same ethnicity, causing the majority of Nisei to marry other Nisei.
