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
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



Comments on this journal
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?
and hwen you get one you go "are you arab!! " or "hey! where you from?"
Bamea and all that :P
/barf
^ I can say that definitely happened to me a few times :P
Thought it was funny and mostly true =)