A：if you can choose, will you marry a foreigner or a Chinese?如果让你选的话，你是愿意嫁给一个中国人还是一个外国人?

B：why? Did tom pop the question?为什么这么问，汤姆向你求婚了吗?

A：not yet. But I wonder if I can get my parents’ consent.没有，我怕父母不同意。

B：let me guess, your parents want you to marry a Chinese man, right?我猜猜，你父母一定是想你嫁一个中国人，对吗?

A：you are right. It is giving me a real headache. I feel like I’m between a rock and a hard place.是啊，我正头疼呢，我觉得左右为难。

B：I used to have the same problem when I was with my ex.我和以前的男朋友谈恋爱时，也遇到了同样的问题。

A：oh, how did you deal with it?那你怎么解决的?

B：I just let it go and continued dating with my Korean boyfriend. But finally we broke up.我就顺其自然，继续和我的韩国男朋友约会，但是后来我们还是分手了。

A：oh, it’s a pity. What was the matter?太可惜了，为什么啊?

B：simple. We had personality clashes and there were too many cultural differences.很简单，我们性格不合，双方文化也有很多不同之处。

A：like what?比如呢?

B：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.他希望我过韩式的生活，要求我放弃工作，安心待在家里。

A：Oh, I see. In their culture women should put family first.这样啊，在他们的文化里，女性应该以家庭为重。

B：yes, he said it would be batter for me and for the whole family. But I simply can not quit working.是啊，他说这样对我，对整个家庭都好。但是我就是不想辞掉工作。

A：so that's why it’s hard to have a happy marriage with a foreigner.所以和外国人结婚，很难幸福。

B：not really. There are many successful mixed marriage around us.也不一定，我们周围不也有很多成功的例子嘛。