remember I said I would post the You Know You're Asian When...
here is it is
You know you’re a true Asian when…
▪ Paying for the dinner check = World War III
▪ Your automatic pose when taking a picture is the peace sign
▪ Your family takes a million pictures everywhere you go
▪ Rice is bought from 99 Ranch Market by the tons
▪ You don’t consider Orange Chicken to be Chinese food
▪ Your dad wears those sandals. Yeah, you know the ones I’m talking about.
▪ You complain about failing a test, and end up acing it
▪ You are forbidden to date until you’re 40
▪ "Calculus? I took Calculus in 3rd grade!"
▪ People complain about you shouting in a public place. THIS IS OUR NORMAL SPEAKING VOICE, PEOPLE!
▪ At fast-food restaurants, you do the “napkin grab”. This is when you stick your finger into the napkin dispenser and grab an exorbitance amount (Can also be applied to ketchup packs, straws, silverware, etc.)
▪ Everything you buy is on sale
▪ Your parents enjoy comparing you to their friends' kids. If you like them so much, why don’t you just adopt them
▪ Your mom or dad argues with the cashier about an incorrectly priced item, even if it’s off by a dollar
▪ Taking 6 AP's out of 7 is still probably considered slacking
▪ Your parents think that the entire job industry is made up of doctors, lawyers, or engineers
▪ Every boy you talk to is considered (by your parents) to be your “boyfriend”
▪ You've learned to keep bargaining, even if the prices are ridiculously low
▪ 2 words: Bowl. Cut.
▪ Your parents still tried to get you into places half-price, saying you are 11 when you are really 15
▪ Idiot people try to impress you with pathetic imitation Asian languages, like the ever-so-popular: ching chong ling long ting tong
▪ Sometime in your life, you have owned a back scratcher
▪ You ask your parents help on ONE math problem and 2 hours later they're still lecturing you
▪ Someone has asked if you have ever eaten dog, or any household animal of that sort
▪ You use grocery bags to hold garbage.
▪ You have a collection of mini shampoo bottles that you take every
time you stay in a hotel
▪ Your dad thinks he can fix everything himself
▪ At dinner parties, the parents start singing karaoke (the ones featuring ugly Asian women attempting to dance)
▪ Your first word when you were a baby was "Harvard"
▪ "You want a laptop!?! When I was your age, I didn't even have toilet paper!!"
▪ Your mom dressed you in boy clothing as a child
▪ You’ve managed to incorporate “fail” or “ai-ya” into your everyday vocabulary
credit to Salina Yun