osition, or they adopted the practice of selecting picture-brides, which developed out of the tradition of the arranged marriage. Neither of the partners to the union would meet before the wedding in this system, but the bride was enabled to get a visa once she had been accepted by the man in America. This system added to the anti-Japanese feeling in the U.S., however. One of the chief arguments against the Japanese was that they were "nonassimilable," and picture-bride
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