I was the one sending the last ask. It's kind of a long story, but here it goes. I'm a Iraqi girl living in the Netherlands. I'm also born here. I have an Armenian boyfriend who lives here almost his entire life. His parents have trouble accepting me as his girlfriend. They would rather wanted an Armenian girl. His parents don't speak dutch that well which makes it even more difficult for me and my bf. Do you guys have any advice on how to improve the relationship between me and his parents?
my parents are the same way with it comes to things like this especially when it comes to things like outside ethnicity (and i’m assuming religion?) and personally would prefer me to marry a persian/iranian (we’re persian-iranian & shia), and they’re also really strict parents and maintaining culture and language is really important especially amongst ethnic/religious minorities in the region. (we tend to keep it within what we are) so i’m going to just suggest what i think would be helpful if it were about my family:
1) show that you’re accepting of and willing to learn more about our culture/religion
2) invite my parents to do things together (all of us go out to dinner every now and then)
3) be patient
if our followers ave any suggestions then please feel free to add on
-Sanaz