S: why? Did tom pop the question?

　　N: not yet. But I wonder if I can get my parents’ consent.

　　S: let me guess, your parents want you to marry a Chinese man, right?

　　N: you are right. It is giving me a real headache. I feel like I’m between a rock and a hard place.

　　S: I used to have the same problem when I was with my ex.

　　N: oh, how did you deal with it?

　　S: I just let it go and continued dating with my Korean boyfriend. But finally we broke up.

　　N: oh, it’s a pity. What was the matter?

　　S: simple. We had personality clashes and there were too many cultural differences.

　　N: like what?

　　S: he hoped to live in the Korean way and asked me to give up working and stay at home to take care of the family.

　　N: Oh, I see. In their culture women should put family first.

　　S: yes, he said it would be batter for me and for the whole family. But I simply can not quit working.

　　N: so that's why it’s hard to have a happy marriage with a foreigner.

　　S: not really. There are many successful mixed marriage around us.