CarolC:

While it is sad, it is not unexpected. COnsider how people in small town America and the military felt about Nips and Krauts (sorry for the politically incorrect terms) in 1940. They ostracized people who had been living and working alongside of them for years and were American citizens because they had a name that MIGHT have sounded German. Even if it turned out to be Slav or AUstrian.

War does that to people's minds. So does overwhelming personal stress. It makes them collapse things together that should be differentiated. The lizard brain rides again.

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