Because Japanese Americans are among the oldest Asian American groups, they would be expected to have a high level of panethnicity since they apparently have much in common with other U.S.-born Asian Americans. However, most Japanese Americans interviewed for this paper did not identify panethnically with their Asian co-ethnics, but felt separate and distinct as Japanese Americans. Research on panethnicity has not sufficiently examined why some Asian Americans are not panethnic. Although Japanese Americans are homogeneously racialized as “Asians,” they also resist their panethnic racialization by insisting on their distinct identity as Japanese descendants. They also continue to experience cultural and generational differences with other Asian Americans. In addition, even third and fourth generation Japanese Americans are not immune to the interethnic prejudices, hostilities, and homeland tensions that continue to simmer among different groups of Asian Americans. Finally, my interviewees were not interested in panethnic activism because they apparently no longer had compelling experiences of racial injustice and socioeconomic marginalization. Nonetheless, national-origins ethnicity and panethnicity should not be regarded as mutually exclusive opposites.

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“我不觉得很亚裔美国人”：为什么日裔美国人不是更泛民族？

由于日裔美国人是最古老的亚裔美国人群体之一，因此预计他们将具有高度的泛民族性，因为他们显然与其他在美国出生的亚裔美国人有很多共同之处。然而，本文所采访的大多数日裔美国人并不认同他们的亚裔同族裔，而是觉得自己与日裔美国人是分开和独特的。对泛民族性的研究还没有充分研究为什么一些亚裔美国人不是泛民族性的。尽管日裔美国人被同质化为“亚洲人”，但他们也通过坚持自己作为日本后裔的独特身份来抵制他们的泛种族化。他们还继续经历与其他亚裔美国人的文化和代际差异。此外，即使是第三代和第四代日裔美国人也不能幸免于种族间的偏见、敌对和在不同亚裔美国人群体中持续酝酿的国内紧张局势。最后，我的受访者对泛民族激进主义不感兴趣，因为他们显然不再有令人信服的种族不公正和社会经济边缘化的经历。尽管如此，民族起源的种族和泛民族性不应被视为相互排斥的对立面。