BEING ASIAN MEANS...........
*There is a sale on any item, you buy 100 of them*
*You put your clothes in suitcases instead of wardrobes*
*You have a 'Singer Brother' sewing machine at home*
*Your mother has a minor disagreement with her (or your dad's) sister and doesn't talk to her for ten years*
*You call an older person you've never met before "uncle"*
*You hide everything from your parents*
*Your mother does everything for you if you are male*
*You do all the housework and cooking if you are female*
*Your relatives alone could populate a small city*
*Everyone is a family friend*
*You read law, medicine or engineering at university*
*You were thick (i.e. stupid) so you studied accounting or business instead*
*You know no one who has studied music*
*You went to a university as far away from home as possible*
*You still came back home to live with your parents after you had finished*
*Your best friend got married at the age of 16*
*You only make telephone calls after 6pm (discounts) or after 9 p.m*
*You eat onions with everything*
*You use chilli sauce instead of tomato ketchup*
*You fight over who pays the dinner bill*
*You say you hate Indian films(/songs) but secretly watch(/hear) them with your parents*
*You teach Westerners swearwords in your language*
*You order Indian food in your own language to impress the people you're with but the waiters don't understand you*.
*You avoid public places when with a member of the opposite sex, especially if there is an acquaintance within a 250 miles radius*
*You always say "open the light" instead of "turn the light on"*
*You secure your baggage with a rope*
*You're walking out of customs with your trolley at the airport and you see all twenty-five members of your family who have come to pick you up*
*You get very upset when airlines refuse to accept your luggage which is just 80 lbs. overweight*
*You go back to your parents' country and people treat you like a member of...the royal family*
*You ask your dad a simple question and he tells you story of how he had to walk miles barefoot just to get to school*
*You're parents would freak out if you wore a crop top baring your midriff...but wearing a sari is perfectly acceptable*
*Your brother had no curfew while you had to be home at 11pm*
*When your American friends cringe at the thought of their parents in bed, you wonder how odd it would be to see your parents get within one foot of...each other*
*Your parents have nicknames but only because people they work with just stop when trying to read their names*
*You have annoying nicknames like Chotu or Chicku.....*
*Your parents call all your friends "Beta" whether they are Indian or not*
*Your parents are panicking if you aren't married and you turn 25*
*Either you really like asians of the opposite sex or you can't stand them*
*Your mother measures wealth in gold and diamonds*
*Your parents drink 6 cups of tea a day*
*Your friends could not explain your religion to someone if they tried*
*You could not explain your religion to someone if you tried*
*You have cousins you have never met, whose names you don't know, but who insist they're related to you, even though they bear NO resemblance to...anyone YOU know*
*Your parents push the concept of an arranged marriage on you and try and demonstrate how well it works whenever they're not fighting*
*Your parents compare you to all of their friends' kids*
*You notice that whenever you go to another Indian's house, your parents always talk about work and business*
*The second you pull out of someone's driveway, your parents start talking...about them*