you know you are an arab
when............................... ...
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...
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. ....