[speaker001:] If you can choose, will you marry a foreigner or a Chinese?
[speaker002:] Why? Did tom pop the question?
[speaker001:] Not yet. But I wonder if I can get my parents 'consent.
[speaker002:] Let me guess, your parents want you to marry a Chinese man, right?
[speaker001:] You are right. It is giving me a real headache. I feel like I 'm between a rock and a hard place.
[speaker002:] I used to have the same problem when I was with my ex.
[speaker001:] Oh, how did you deal with it?
[speaker002:] I just let it go and continued dating with my Korean boyfriend. But finally we broke up.
[speaker001:] Oh, it 's a pity. What was the matter?
[speaker002:] Simple. We had personality clashes and there were too many cultural differences.
[speaker001:] Like what?
[speaker002:] 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.
[speaker001:] Oh, I see. In their culture women should put family first.
[speaker002:] Yes, he said it would be better for me and for the whole family. But I simply can not quit working.
[speaker001:] So that's why it 's hard to have a happy marriage with a foreigner.
[speaker002:] Not really. There are many successful mixed marriage around us.