Unfunctional Family

I heard my mom talk about her friends' daughter's marriage couple days ago. I was really surprised when I heard about the story. Here is the brief in a nutshell. My mom's friends' daughter is Chinese. She married a white Australian guy. Both of my mom's friends don't speak English. Last year, they went to Australia to visit their daughter and her husband for the first time.

The problem is this guy can not stand listening his wife speak Chinese to her parents. He told her that they can not speak Chinese at his home when he is present. It makes him "anxious" when he doesn't know what they are saying. I mean that is NONSENSE. First of all, it is her home too; Secondly, it is their right to speak in their language; Thirdly, they only know Chinese, how he expects them to talk to their daughter? Fourthly, what if he goes to a non-English speaking country? such as Germany or France, can he stop all Germans and French to speak German and French? I mean who he think he is! What right he has to do that!

What is most ridiculous is that their daughter seems OK with it. She told her parents not to speak to her when he gets home anymore. So during those a few days they were visiting, they could only talk once he left for work. After he returned home, they stopped talking. Since they don't know how to speak English, they could only use hand gesture, and shake or nod their head to communicate! This is insane. I can not believe such rude and inconsiderate people exist. I was more mad about the daughter. Why is she so weak? Why couldn't she tell her Australian husband that what he did to her parents are wrong? I know I would never do that to my parents.

Among all the bazaar stories I heard about intercultural relationship, this is NOT the weirdest one indeed. There are a lot of things I heard and read were even worse. Although most of those stories are quite unfortunate, I do believe there are good and bad people in every race actually. It is just when it comes to cross-cultural things, people become more sensitive and skeptical and tend to focus on the negativity much more than the positivity. I'm certain there are just as many successful cases of intercultural relationship, but most people don't pay much attention to those good stories, since to most people horrible ones sound more interesting.