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One thing to understand, or at the minimum accept is the generation difference at play here. When our parents were forming the personalities they now have, this world was a very different place, and thus many of the things we do not see as acceptable were instilled into the mindset they grew up with. This may seem an easily changed, or "outgrown" mentality but, it usually is not.
The Psycology of our parents generation is dying in this one, and likely they know it and are confused about the current society, just as we are about the past. My recommendation is to simply accept the negatives of this relationship....and try to dwell on the positives, indeed search these aspects out, and enjoy them. Then quit worrying about things you cannot/ should not change in the mind of another, as the worry is counter-productive in this case.
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