You Know You’re an Arab When…..
You Know You’re an Arab When…..
You call all your dad’s friends: am-mo
You have an oriental rug in every room
You have an endless supply of pistachios, dates, pumpkin or watermellon seeds
You actually like yogurt drink
you either tip 2%, 5% but never the actual 15%
Your parents say you’re becoming Americanized anytime you get into trouble
You hug and kiss relatives you have never seen before in your life
You curse at your teachers or strangers in Arabic
You flip out when someone mistakes you for a
Mexican or Indian
You can spot an Arab a mile away and they have
spotted you because they keep staring
You have Thanksgiving dinner with rice and "bamiyah" (okra
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
You walk down a street with Arab stores and you are trying to eavesdrop on others arabic conversations
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 have told your kids not to walk the floor
barefoot or they’ll catch a cold
You arrive one or two hours late to a party and think it’s normal. …all Arabs are late- all the time
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 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 has a minor disagreement with her (or
your dad’s) sister and doesn’t talk to her for ten years
You hide everything from your parents
Your mother does everything for you if you are male
You do all the housework and ********ing if you are female
Your relatives alone could populate a small city
Everyone is a family friend
You went to a university as far away from home as possible
You still come back home to live with your parents
after you graduate
You teach Westerners swear words in Arabic
You always say "open the light" instead of "turn
the light on"
You’re walking out of customs at the airport and you
see at least twenty-five members of your family who have come to pick you up
You go back to your parents’ country and people treat you like a member of…the royal family
Your parents drink 6 cups of tea/arabic coffee a day
You’ve had a shoe thrown at you by your mother
Don’t Believe … I’m Kidding 
