You know.....

You Know Your Indian When.....

Your dad is some sort of engineer or doctor.

Your parents say, "Don't forget your heritage."

You know what's going to happen in every Hindi movie before it happens

You're father and grandfathers have hair on their ears

An Asian woman comes on campus and people ask: "Is that your mother? Well then, is it your sister?"

Your relatives' houses smell like incense, mothballs or both

Your parents say, "Calculus? I took calculus in 8th grade!!"

You either really, really want to go to NYU or really, really want to stay away from it

"You want a stereo! When I was your age, I didn't even have shoes!"

Your dad still pulls his socks up to his knees, you know, the ones with the blue and pink stripes at the top.

Your family owns a tennis racquet.

You buy corn oil by the gallon.

Your family owns butcher knives bigger than your head.

You arrive one or two hours late to a party and think it's normal.

Everyone in your family has pet names, which sound nowhere close to their real names.

You are standing next to the two largest suitcases at the Airport.

You talk for an hour at the front door when leaving someone's house.

When your parents meet strangers and talk for a few minutes, you discover you're talking to a distant cousin.

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.

There is a sale on any item, you buy 100 of them.

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 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 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 like the meat well done.

You eat onions with everything.

You use chilli sauce instead of tomato ketchup.

You say you hate Indian films but secretly watch 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 go back to your parents' country and people treat you like a member of...the royal family.

You're parents would freak out if your sister wore a crop top baring her midriff...but wearing a sari is perfectly acceptable

Your parents call all your friends "Beta" whether they are Indian or not

Your parent are panicking if you aren't married when you turn 25

Either you really like Indians of the opposite sex or you can't stand them

Your mother measures wealth in gold and diamonds

A horoscope must decide your wedding date

Your parents drink 6 cups of tea a day

You are sick and tired of answering questions about "the dot"

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.

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.

Every few months your parents say when they're moving back to India

No one ever seems to call ahead of time to say they are coming over for a visit.

You're proud to be Indian - and you pass these jokes on to all your Indian friends!

I thought this was SO funny when i read it! LMAO! I did'nt even know and i was Indian!LMAO! My crazy family does most of this crap!!!!!!!!!!😆

Wait i got more........:-




your parents still tried to get you into places half-price saying you were 12 when you were really 15.

you ask your parents help on one math problem and 2 hours later they're still lecturing.

you have a 40 lb. bag of rice in your pantry.

everyone thinks you're "Indian" no matter what part of South Asia your ancestors were from.

you've had a bowl haircut at one point in your life.

your parents enjoy comparing you to their friends' kids.

you've had to sit through videos with scantily clad, ugly Asian women attempting to dance and walk around a temple, forest or library.

you drive mostly Japanese cars.

you've learned to keep bargaining even if the prices are rock bottom.

you've never gotten little red envelopes around February.

piles of shoes tend to make it hard to open the front, back and closet doors.

idiot people try to impress you with pathetic imitation Asian languages

your ancestors 1000 generations back invented the back scratcher.

at least one family member wears black wire/plastic frame glasses

your parents hover over your tired, caffeine-drugged body at 12 midnight to say, "In India (or other native country), we studied even more."

your parents expect you'll be best friends with any one off the street in any given area as long as they are Asian.

everyone thinks you're good at math.

you like $1.75 movies

you like $1.50 movies even more.

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.

your parents insist you marry within your race.

your parents have never kissed you

you learned about the birds and the bees from someone other than your parents

"You want a stereo!" When I was your age, I didn't even have shoes!!"

you have to call just about all your parent's friends "Auntie and Uncle."

you have 12+ aunts and uncles from both your mother's and your father's side
at expensive restaurants, you order a delicious glass of water for your beverage and NEVER order dessert.

your parents simply cut the green/black part off the bread and say "Eat it anyway. It's still good."

the vast majority of the people related to you wear glasses. Thick glasses.
you will most likely be taller than your parents.

your parents have either made you play the piano, the violin or both.

you get nothing if you do well in school, but crapped on if you don't
when going to other peoples' houses, you always have to bring a gift.

your family always cheers for the Asian athlete on TV (i.e. Michael Chang)

the furniture in your house never matches the wallpaper, the carpet, the decorations or any of the rest of the furniture.

you have rocks, sticks, leaves and strange-smelling, unknown substances in your pantry for use as medicine.

you own a rice cooker or two

your parents tell you about how long it took for them to get to school, how horrible the weather was in their native country, and how much they still appreciated going

your parents buy you clothes and shoes many sizes too big so you can "grow into it" and wear it for years to come."

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Also im sorry if some of them are repeated in the second post....... 😳 😳 😳