@cicerone imposter,
I've talked about one of my aunts here before, the one that hated japs. I don't remember my mother, much less my father, ever agreeing with her. I don't remember her going on rants, just that the hate showed up once in a while in a short sentence or two. We went back to california and stayed with her when she was having a serious operation, and again when my father directed some commercials in the hollywood area in the early fifties. In the mid fifties, we moved back to CA, and stayed with her until we bought a house.
Not long after that, when I went to university, our school, by the nature of it, let me meet a variety of people, to my benefit. My aunt grew to be disturbed by me and my choices of pals. I thought she was a wild eyed bigot, but she had company at the time, people who had lived right near the california coast and highly feared invasion. That house was mere blocks from the Sawtelle area, which I've talked about before here and you know about, of course. People taken away to camps..
My other aunt, my closest cousins' mother, the one who worked at Disney, the one whom I call my hundred year old aunt, was not like that at all. She was fairly well educated for her time, always then and later a well read woman, teaching in a school house in Washington state when she was nineteen, which would have been in 1919. The bigoted aunt did finish high school around 1920, but didn't seem to read much in our times staying with her. I'm not defending her ways, but I can understand fear and blame can be close forces.
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