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My in-laws are very nice, very courteous, very arms-length Hong Kongers. I think the problem is, they don't drink. They never get to let loose, everything's always bunched up in there, unless once in a while, their son, my husband's brother, starts singingor something. Then my father-in-law cries.
L my brother-in-law is a performer, it is unstoppable. He has an endearing singing voice and pick up just about any kind of instrument. He wanted to be a pop star, and for many years pursued that in earnest, until settling on becoming a dermatologist, because $.
His wife, is a white lady who speaks english and therefore teaches english.
I think it's so funny that after so many years of their dating, meeting when they were 13 and dating on and off until 33, my in-laws seemed to have not gotten to know her at all. Despite living in the same city, and what must have amounted to hundreds of hours spent together. Once I went to dinner at my in-laws and Katie and my MIL were talking about doing L's taxes for him. Like they both worked for him.
"Can you eat fish with the bones in it?" asks my father-in-law. "Me neither, I am a fish and chips kind of guy..."
Years later, now that they're married, my mother in law said, "I noticed Katie is not what I expected, she doesn't wear revealing clothing like the other white girls."
I think about that and laugh. How the relationship is so surface it never even got beyond the stereotypes of race.
We like to imagine a white family sitting calling each other on the phone having the same conversation. "You know the thing about our son in law is, he's not very chinky at all, he doesn't do any of those chinky asian things like act all sneaky and wear long braids."
L my brother-in-law is a performer, it is unstoppable. He has an endearing singing voice and pick up just about any kind of instrument. He wanted to be a pop star, and for many years pursued that in earnest, until settling on becoming a dermatologist, because $.
His wife, is a white lady who speaks english and therefore teaches english.
I think it's so funny that after so many years of their dating, meeting when they were 13 and dating on and off until 33, my in-laws seemed to have not gotten to know her at all. Despite living in the same city, and what must have amounted to hundreds of hours spent together. Once I went to dinner at my in-laws and Katie and my MIL were talking about doing L's taxes for him. Like they both worked for him.
"Can you eat fish with the bones in it?" asks my father-in-law. "Me neither, I am a fish and chips kind of guy..."
Years later, now that they're married, my mother in law said, "I noticed Katie is not what I expected, she doesn't wear revealing clothing like the other white girls."
I think about that and laugh. How the relationship is so surface it never even got beyond the stereotypes of race.
We like to imagine a white family sitting calling each other on the phone having the same conversation. "You know the thing about our son in law is, he's not very chinky at all, he doesn't do any of those chinky asian things like act all sneaky and wear long braids."