omg, i just found this on the internet (soori if its been posted before). 😆
* Your house smells like fried onions.
* When you tell your parents you got 98%, and they ask you what happened to the other two percent.
* There is a sale on any item, you buy 100 of them.
* You make tea in a saucepan.
* You never buy bin bags, but use your saved grocery bags for it.* 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 sister and doesn't talk to her for ten years.
* You call an older person you've never met before "uncle".
* 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 study law, medicine or engineering at university.
* You were thick so you studied "Travel and Tourism – init".
* 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 18.
* You only make telephone calls after 6pm.
* You eat onions with everything.
* You use chilli sauce instead of tomato ketchup.
* 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.
* Your Dad drives a Nissan.
* You're rich so he drives a Mercedes.
*- (For females) You're parents would freak out if you wore a crop top baring your midriff but wearing a sari is perfectly acceptable
*- (For females) Your brother had no curfew while you had to be home at 11pm.
* You are ALWAYS taking off and putting on your shoes wherever you go.
* When you were little you always wondered why yourEnglish friends waited until after breakfast to brush their teeth when you did it first thing in the morning.
* To your English friends, oil is used purely for cooking and not as a grooming aid
* 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 asian or not.
* Your mother measures wealth in gold and diamonds
* Your parents push the concept of an arranged marriage on you and try to demonstrate how well it works whenever they're not fighting.
* Your parents compare you to all of their friends' kids.
* At least once a week your mom says, "I want to go to India/Pakistan"
* No one ever seems to call ahead of time to say they are coming over for a visit.
* Your parents worry what other people will think if you're not going to be adoctor/ lawyer/engineer.
* You're parent's always say, "It's cheaper in India/Pakistan"
Shiv Shakti
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