Post by ╗ on Jul 27, 2006 19:21:46 GMT -5
thirjiangli said:
HAHA!! oh my god, that's so true it's scary! Many of these things even applies to my dad, and he's Norwegian! I got another one once:
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE AN ASIAN?
1. You probably have an urn for your relatives that have passed away.
2. You don’t have matching bedding.
3. If you’re Korean your last name is either Kim, Park, Choi, Shin or Lee.
4. You don’t have matching dishes.
5. At least one person in your family owns or knows how to use a sewing machine.
6. You don’t have matching hangers in your closet.
7. If your Vietnamese than your last name is either Nguyen or Tran.
8. You have or have had a fish tank in your living room.
9. You’re a price club member.
10. You never really bought a calendar in your life; you always got free ones with movie stars.
11. You’ve been to Cabramatta at least once in your life.
12. You’re amused when American think Chinese fast food is good.
13. If you’re Korean you may have tow refrigerators.
14. You dilute your dishwater soap with water when your running out so it’ll last a little longer.
15. You don’t really own Tupperware, you store food in bowls or pots covered in plastic wrap.
16. I f your Vietnamese you have a bottle of “nouc mam” (fish sauce) in your refrigerator.
17. You feel awkward when someone asks you to leave their shoes on in their house.
18. If you have a dog, you feed it left over rice with some food instead of real dog food.
19. Someone in your family has a fixed up Honda/ Acura.
20. You have something to cover your kitchen table to keep it clean.
21. If you’re Chinese, you kiss up to relatives when it comes to new year.
22. You collect and recycle for extra money.
23. If you’re Korean, you have at least on bottle og Kim Chee in your refrigerator.
24. If your Vietnamese, every other word is “dau ma”
25. You’ll spend for bran name clothes but keep condiments form fats food places.
26. You have instant noodles in your house.
27. You can’t go more then 5 days without rice.
28. You’ve had at least one haircut from your mum or dad.
29. You don’t really own a mop; you just use an old t-shirt instead.
30. You haste it when your parents boil Chinese herbs because it stinks.
31. If you’re Vietnamese, you probably know at least one Lynda trang dai song.
32. You have lup chung (Chinese sausage) in your fridge.
33. You have owned the same vacuum cleaner for more then 5 years,
34. You only drink soup from Chinese spoons not American spoons.
35. You work out so hard but still look like the average Asian.
36. You eat spaghetti at home with chopsticks.
37. If your Chinese, you’ve probably seen “goo, wak, jai”
38. You like Jackie Chan
39. You have at least one relative within an hour drive.
40. You’ll forward this to your Asian friends.
41. Your mother has a short, curly perm.
42. You dad is some sort of engineer.
43. Your parents have tried to get you into places half- price saying you were 12 when you were really 15.
44. You ask your parents help on one math problem and 2 hours later they’re still lecturing.
45. You have a 40lb bag of rice in your pantry.
46. You shop at Cabramatta.
47. Everyone thinks your “Chinese” no matter what part of Asia your ancestors came from.
48. You’ve has a bowl haircut at one point of your life.
49. Your parents enjoy comparing you to their friend’s kids.
50. You parents say, “Don’t forget your heritage”.
51. You drive mostly japans cars.
52. You’ve learned to keep bargaining even if prices are rock bottom.
53. You’ve eaten parts of animals they don’t even put in hot dogs.
54. At least once, you’ve told a joke with “Confucius say……..”
55. You know what bok choy is.
56. You’ve ever gotten red envelopes around February.
57. Piles of shoes tend to make it hard to open the front, back and closet doors.
58. You hear ( your name + eeee(optional) + yah!) everyone time someone calls you. (e.g Mary –ee- yah!)
59. You have NO eyelashes.
60. Idiot people try to impress you with pathetic imitation Asian languages, like the ever so popular ching chong chong
61. Your parents say leaving rice in your bowl is a sin.
62. The bio lectures on marine life (seaweed, sea cucumbers, octopi) was last nights dinner.
63. Your ancestors 1000 generations back invented the back scratcher.
64. At least one or your family member wears black wire/ plastic frame glasses.
65. Your parents hover over your tried, caffeine-drugged body t 12 midnight to say, “In Korea (or other native country), we studies even more”.
66. Your parents expect you to be best friends with anyone off the street in any given area as long as they are Asian.
67. Your relatives house smell like incense, moth balls or both.
68. You parents say, “Calculus, I took calculus in 8th grade
69. Everyone thinks that you’re good at MATH.
70. Your parent’s vocabulary is filled with “Ai-yahs and Wahs”.
71. Your aunts and uncles bring you back adorable clothing form Asia with fuzzy bunnies, vinyl ducks and English words that don’t make sense, in great colours like yellow, pink, orange and ever so popular lime green.
72. Your parent’s insist that you marry within your race.
73. You never order chop suey, sweet and sour pork, or any other imitation oriental food.
74. You either really want to go to Uni, or really, really stay away from it.
75. Your parents have never kissed you.
76. Your parents have never kissed each other.
77. You learned about the birds and bees from someone other than your parents.
78. “You want a stereo!”, “When I was your age I didn’t even have shoes”
79. People see a bunch of scribbles on your chopstick and ask fro a translation.
80. You have to call just about all parents friends “Aunty or Uncle”.
81. You have 12+ aunts and uncles.
82. At expensive, you order a delicious glass of water for your beverage and NEVER order dessert.
83. The vast majority of people related to you wear glasses. Thick glasses.
84. You’re taller than both of your parents.
85. Your parents have either made you ply the piano, violin or both.
86. You get nothing when you do good at school, but crapped on if you don’t.
87. When going to other people’s house you always have to bring a gift.
88. Your dad pulls his socks up to his knees, the ones with the blue and oink stripes at the top.
89. Your family owns a tennis racquet, golf clubs or both.
90. Your family always cheers for the Asian athlete.
91. The furniture in your house never matches the wallpaper, carpet, the decorations or any of the rest of the furniture.
92. You have rocks, sticks, leave and all sorts of unknown substances in your house for the use as medicines.
93. You own 2 rice cookers (one that works and the other your father swears at for the past ten years, its repairable and should not be thrown away)
94. You buy Soya sauce by the gallon.
95. Your family owns butcher knives bigger than your head.
96. Your parent’s 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 appreciated going.
97. Your parents buy you clothe sand shoes many sizes too big so you can “grow into” and wear fro years to come.
98. Your parents ask your teachers for more homework.
99. You scavenge round for discount coupons.
Where are the Filipinos?
See this is what I'm talking about. Not EVERYBODY thinks Filipinos are Asian.