- I can't accept your way of thinking! It's not that I regret spending nearly ten million dong to buy tickets for my child, but I see that the child's excessiveness when closing the door and crying alone with a picture of his idol after attending a concert. That is a sign of being negatively influenced by foreign culture and foreign-worshiping ideology. The reason is also because I'm away from home, busy earning money to support the family, and have little time to care for my child. But it's your indulgence and ideology that have helped!

Blackpink band. Photo: VNA

- I don't deny that spending money on my child to go see movies is inappropriate. But I can't accept your point of view on foreign culture!

- Unacceptable, why?

The wife "retorted" without any restraint:

- Look, my friends go abroad to live happily, all day long resting, traveling , enjoying themselves. As for you, you travel a lot, know a lot, and also go abroad a lot, but you are conservative and harsh with your wife and children. Our family doesn't lack money. I'll tell you the truth, if it weren't for you, I would have sent my children abroad to settle down, because we are both poor and backward, how can my children have a good environment to develop! Moreover, men and women are equal, I also have the right to guide my children in what I think they need!

At this time, Mr. Thanh, Mr. Hung's father-in-law, was sitting in the room and heard the story. He came out and angrily walked straight to his daughter:

- Your husband is right! Now I understand why you didn't want to take your grandchild back to the countryside. The kids were on summer vacation, but you didn't take them back to visit your grandparents, forcing me to come all the way here to visit them. These past few days, even though I was here, you and your daughter kept talking to each other in both English and Vietnamese, making me feel like an extra person. I think you're the one who has a foreign mentality, even looking down on the traditional cultural values of the Vietnamese people. I didn't expect you to only care about yourself, only want to enjoy yourself, and not care about your family, your parents, or your hometown. Why is that, daughter? Or is it because I haven't taught you properly?

- Well, I... I see my friends living abroad are all like that. Besides, I don't see anything wrong with that, Dad?

- Dad has to tell you this. Your parents and children were all born in the countryside. You did not learn or teach your grandchildren so many good cultural values of the nation and traditions of your ancestors. Now that you have grown up, you have strayed from tradition and even infiltrated them into the children's thinking. Just think, if one day they forget their roots, their grandparents, parents, hometown, and even their mother tongue, wouldn't that be heartbreaking? Moreover, you are helping those with evil intentions infiltrate the young generation with a pragmatic lifestyle, worshiping materialism, and disregarding traditional moral and cultural values. Doing so is destroying family traditions, and furthermore, destroying social order and this country itself. You consider foreign culture to be rosy, and consider family traditions and traditions to be black. Your thinking is "self-evolving" and "self-transforming", which is very wrong, my daughter!

Seeing her father talking with tears in his eyes, Mr. Hung's wife came to her senses, hugged her father and looked at her husband crying:

- I'm sorry dad, I was wrong! I will think again and tell my nephew not to do that again!

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