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you know ur an arab when............................... ...


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A visa is not a credit card. ...

Your refer to your dad's friends as Amoo. ..

You have an endless supply of pistachios, dates, and pumpkin seeds... Your
parents say you're becoming Americanized anytime you get into trouble. You
curse at your teachers or strangers in Arabic.
You can spot an Arab a mile away and they have spotted at you because they
keep staring. After a family meal, the women fight to the death over who
should wash the dishes while the men sit on their behinds and discuss
politics, waiting for their tea. Your parents want you to become a doctor
or engineer. ...
You use your forehead and eyebrows to point something out...
Your mother yells at the top of her lungs to call you to dinner even if
you're in the next room....

You have at least thirty cousins. ...
You arrive one or two hours late to a party and think it's normal. You are
standing next to the largest suitcases at the Airport.
You talk for an hour at the front door when leaving someone's house....
You say bye 17 times on the phone. ...
When your parents meet strangers and talk for a few minutes,you discover
they know one of your uncles back home. ... Your parents don't realize
phone connections to foreign countries have improved in the last two
decades, and still scream at the top of their lungs when making long
distance calls. .. Your mother does everything for you if you are male You
do all the housework and cooking if you are
female... (not always!!!)

Your relatives alone could populate a small city.....
You still came back home to live with your parents after you graduate...

You teach Westerners swearwords in your Arabic
You always say "open the light" instead of "turn the light on".
Your parents drink 6 cups of tea a day...
You've had a shoe thrown at you by your mother. ....
You're proud to be an Arab - and you pass these jokes on to all
your Arab friends
 

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Login to find out (March 20, 2006 at 12:39pm)
Ahh that reminds me. When you run everything LATE :)!
 
Login to find out (March 19, 2006 at 11:49pm)
I'm a little late but I think being fashionably late applies to all aspects of life....even the virtual world.

These are all true, especially Platoshadow's comment about cursing while watching the news...I just finished cursing Fox news while drinking tea and getting a slipper thrown at me. Arabs...we are amazing multi-taskers, huh?
 
Login to find out (March 2, 2006 at 7:28pm)
when you see a aggregation of vaguely brown looking people you listen hard for an accent or a stray word in arabic, and let a few slip yourself while watching for a reaction.


and hwen you get one you go "are you arab!! " or "hey! where you from?"
 
Login to find out (March 1, 2006 at 7:02pm)
Eggplant is referred to as "bed and john"
 
Login to find out (March 1, 2006 at 11:22am)
bamia rocks
 
Login to find out (February 28, 2006 at 10:24pm)
Boy I haven't been this confused since that time the fire alarm went off in the middle of the night and I had to stand outside in the snow as the firefighters did their job =/
Bamea and all that :P
 
Login to find out (February 28, 2006 at 10:19pm)
Bamea is OKRA. Those green slimy prickly vegetables.
 
Login to find out (February 28, 2006 at 4:26pm)
Bamia? What is that?
 
Login to find out (February 28, 2006 at 12:41am)
When okra is referred to as "bamia"
 
Login to find out (February 26, 2006 at 2:25am)
You know you're Arab when you intend to propose to a girl her parents insist that in order to acquire their blessings, you must be a doctor, a dentist or lawyer...
/barf
 
Login to find out (February 25, 2006 at 11:30pm)
Feel free to add onto this list...
 
Login to find out (February 3, 2006 at 5:11pm)
LOL! HA HA!
 
Login to find out (February 3, 2006 at 10:08am)
you curse while you watch the news...
 
Login to find out (February 2, 2006 at 11:09pm)
Hmm come to think of it. I don't think I've had a shoe thrown at by my mother, although she is not an arab. However, the LOUD shouting into the phone, especially the cell, oh yeah!
 
Login to find out (January 27, 2006 at 1:27am)
You've had a shoe thrown at you by your mother.

^ I can say that definitely happened to me a few times :P
 
Login to find out (January 27, 2006 at 1:25am)
Hehe I received this list in a chain-mail.
Thought it was funny and mostly true =)