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"You know if your asian if............"
>1. Your mother has a short-haired, curly perm
>2. Your dad is some sort of engineer
>3. Your parents still tried to get you into places half-price saying you were 12 when you were really 15
>4. You ask your parents to help on one math problem and 2 hours later, they're still lecturing
>5. You have a 40lb. bag of rice in your pantry
>6. At sometime in your life you've felt short
>7. Everyone thinks you're "Chinese", no matter what part of Asia your ancestors were from
>8. You've had a bowl haircut at one point in your life
>9. Your parents enjoy comparing you to their friend's kids
>10. You've had to sit through karaoke videos with scantily clad, ugly Asian women attempting to dance and walk around a temple, forest, or library
>11. Your parent's say,"don't forget your heritage"
>12. You drive mostly Japanese cars
>13. You've learned to keep barganing even if the prices are rock bottom
>14. You've had to eat parts of animals they don't even put in hot dogs
>15. At least once, you've started a joke with,"confucius said...."
>16. You know what bok choy is
>17. You've ever gotten little red envelopes around February......
>18. Piles of shoes tend to make it hard to open the front, back, and closet doors
>19. You hear your name plus eee (optional) plus ya! everytime someone calls you (ex. Jean-ee-yah or Mary-yah)
>20. You have NO eyelashes
>21. Idiot people try to impress you with pathetic imitation Asian languages like the ever-so-popular:"ching chong woo bok chi,etc....."
>22. Carry at least 1000 of pictures with you wherever you go; pictures of only Asians
>23. The bio lectures on marine life (seaweed, sea cucumbers, octopii) was last night's dinner
>24. Your ancestors 1000 generations back invented the back scratcher
>25. At least one family member wears black wire/plastic frame glasses
>26. Your parents hvoer over your tired, caffine-drgged body at 12 midnight to say, "In Korea (or othernative country), we studied even more"
>27. Your parents expect you'll be best friends with anyone off the street in any given area as long as they are Asian
>28. An Asian woman comes on campus and people ask:"Is that your mother? Well, then, is it your sister?"
>29. Your relatives' houses smell like incense, mothballs, or both
>30. Your parents say, "Calculus!? I thook calculus in 8th grade!!"
>31. Everyone thinks you're good at math, except your parents who think you're slow
32. Your parent's vocabulary is filled with "Ai-yahs and Wah's"
>33. You like $1.75 movies
>34. You like $1.50 movies even more
>35. Your aunts and uncles bring you back adorable clothing from Asia with fuzzy bunnies, vinyl ducks, and English words that make no sense, in great colors like yellow, pink, magenta, orange, and the ever popular lime green
>36. Your parents insist you marry within your race >37. You never order chop suey, sweet and sour pork, or any other imitation oriental food.
>38. You either really really want to go to UC or really really want to stay away from it
>39. Your parents have never kissed you
>40. Your parents have never kissed each other
>41. You learned about the birds and the bees from someone other than your parents.
>42. You hear: "You want a stereo!? When I was your age, I didn't even have shoes!!"
>43. People see a bunch of scribbles on a chopstick and asks you to translate
>44. You have to call just about all your parent's friends "Auntie and Uncle"
>45. You have 12+ aunts and uncles
>46. At expensive restaurants, you order a delicious glass of water for your beverage and NEVER order dessert
>47. Your parents simply cut the green/black part off the bread and say "See? Still good. Eat."
>48. The vast majority of the peole related to you wear glasses, thick glasses
>49. You will most likely be taller than your parents
>50. Your parents have either made you play the piano, violin, or both
>51. You get nothing if you do well in school, but crapped on if you don't
>52. When going to other people's houses, you always have to bring a gift
>53. Your dad still pulls his socks up to his knees, you know, the ones with the blue and pink strips at the top
>54. Your family owns a tennis racquet, golf clubs, or both
>55. Your family always cheers for the Asian athlete on TV
>56. The furniture in your house never matches the wallpaper, the carpet, the decorations, or any of the rest of the furniture
>57. You have rocks, sticks, leaves, and strange smelling unkown substances in your pantry used as medicine
>58. You own a rice cooker or two
>59. You buy soy sauce by the gallon
>60. Your family owns butcher knives bigger than your head
>61. Your parents tell you about how long it took for them to get to school, how horrible the weather was in their narive country, and how much they still appreciated going
>62.Your parents buy you clothes and shoes many sizes too big so you can "grow into it" and wear it for "years to come"
>63. Your head burns in the summertime


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