Can't read the post, because of the paywall, but I have witnessed (almost?) exactly this thing. Once, when I lived in Germany, a self-inflicted SNAFU had me re

Can't read the post, because of the paywall, but I have witnessed (almost?) exactly this thing. Once, when I lived in Germany, a self-inflicted SNAFU had me receiving hospitality from my neighbours, whose young daughter was camped on the living room floor, because she had not been allowed to go to her school's campout. The poor child even got evicted from there, because of me. On the one hand I thought the parents were being a bit "helicopter". But it also seemed very natural to me. As a South Asian, I find this this is just the way parents usually behave, and always have. And indeed one of the parents in this case was also Asian (though not South Asian).