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| bhaloo |
| 03/17/01 at 21:42:54 |
| slm A brother sent me this last week. There's a lot of similarities with the desi one, and I have actually seen a variation of this list. You know you are an Arab when: 1. You make Turkish coffee before leaving home, when getting to the office,after lunch, when having guests, before the guests leave, after the guests leave and before going to bed. 2. When shops have sale they call your mom. 3. You still have, stored in suitcases, clothes that you used to wear when you were five . 4. You call an older person you've never met before"Ammo" or"Khaltu". 5. You hide everything from your parents, but they still think they know everything about you, and make you believe that they actually do. 6. People are never happy with what you've achieved. If you graduated from school they'll tell you "Oqbal el Shahadeh el kbeereh", and when u get that "Oqbal el Aroos or Areees", and when you get that "Oqbal ma nefrah be Aoulad-kum", and when you get that "Oqbal ma tefrahu bi shahadit-hum", etc... 8. Getting a visa to Europe or the States is like getting a baby,every body tells you "mabrook" 9. You learn how to beg the personnel at the airport to allow the excess baggage you've got as soon as your father stops doing that for you. 10. You dream of holding a different passport. 11. When you FLY BACK home you find 20 people waiting for you at the airport. 13. Everytime you fly back home you meet relatives you never knew existed and they look nothing like your family. 14. You look for universities as far away from home as possible. 15. You always curse at Arabs when you are back home, but when you live abroad you only make Arab friends. 16. When you come back from University you still have to live with your parents, and fight over curfew all over again, as if you never left them before. 17. Your relatives alone could populate a small city. 18. Everyone is a family friend. 19. You fight over who pays the dinner bill. 20. You teach Westerners to swear words in your language. 21. When you go on a date you start thinking of lousy places where nobody would go to so you won't bump into family or friends. 22. You end up in a lousy place and still bump into the relative with the biggest mouth. 23. You think you are liberated when you can't even smoke in public. 24. If you are 25 and not married yet, your parents make you feel that you are getting too old. 25. Getting married becomes the only way you can escape your parents. 26. You tell your friends how to rebel against their parents when you can't even stay out past midnight. 27. You always say "Open the light" instead of "Turn the light on" or "get down from the car" instead of "get out of the car." 28. You pronounce your p's as b's ( bolice and airblane) 29. You ask your dad a simple question and he tells you a story of how he had to walk miles just to get to school. 30. Your parents were ranked first in school. 32. Your dad swears at you with words that affect himself. 33. You tell everyone that you are a "successful businessman back home" when you are really just an unemployed goat herder. 34. You feel uncomfortable saying the ord 'tease' in english. 35. You eat mensef with your bare hands. 36. You smoke as if there is no tomorrow and you only smoke MARLBORO REDS. 37. You only walk on the streets in groups of seven or more people and talk really really loud in arabic together. 38. You wear a black leather jacket, even when it is 100 degrees outside. 39. you think its cool to dance and smoke at the same time. 40. If you are an Arab girl you give the look of death to another Arab girl who looks better than you. 41. Your aunt is always asking when she can dance at your wedding |
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| UmmZaid |
| 03/18/01 at 01:53:41 |
| ROFL!!! >>3. You still have, stored in suitcases, clothes that you used to wear when you were five .<< When my SIL visited here a few months ago, we'd just moved... and I had a box of my husband's sweaters, which I have *NEVER* seen him wear, and I showed them to her, and she's like... these are from 20 years ago, and she showed me pictures from the '80's to PROVE IT!!! And she said she was going to toss them and my husband threw a fit at the very idea! >>15. You always curse at Arabs when you are back home, but when you live abroad you only make Arab friends.<< SO TRUE! >>. You always say "Open the light" instead of "Turn the light on" or "get down from the car" instead of "get out of the car."<< This drives me NUTS!!! But it is true. And "Towel papers," instead of "paper towels." (or is it "towel babers?") >>. You eat mensef with your bare hands.<< !!!! I can't abide this, and yet, every Ramadan, without fail... euw, and you go to pick up the bottle of soda and it's all greasy, b/c God forbid anyone use a napkin. I am the great Ati-Mensaf, b/c I use utensils AND I put ketchup on it to cover up that jameed taste. Bleah. |
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| Tarar |
| 03/19/01 at 11:37:00 |
| Assalamu 'Alaikum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh These could be Added to “You Know you are Desi when….” [quote] 8. Getting a visa to Europe or the States is like getting a baby,every body tells you "mabrook" 10. You dream of holding a different passport. 11. When you FLY BACK home you find 20 people waiting for you at the airport. 14. You look for universities as far away from home as possible. 19. You fight over who pays the dinner bill. 20. You teach Westerners to swear words in your language. 21. When you go on a date you start thinking of lousy places where nobody would go to so you won't bump into family or friends. 22. You end up in a lousy place and still bump into the relative with the biggest mouth. 25. Getting married becomes the only way you can escape your parents. 32. Your dad swears at you with words that affect himself. J LOL very true 33. You tell everyone that you are a "successful businessman back home" when you are really just an unemployed goat herder. [/quote] Wasalaam Tarar |
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| h_m_r00 |
| 03/19/01 at 14:11:03 |
| Salaam God almost everything is so true...and I am the second generation here...let's not get started on my parents;) Hiyam |
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| Al-Basha |
| 03/20/01 at 01:25:57 |
| [slm] Haha majority of that is true :) Especially this one [quote] 6. People are never happy with what you've achieved. If you graduated from school they'll tell you "Oqbal el Shahadeh el kbeereh", and when u get that "Oqbal el Aroos or Areees", and when you get that "Oqbal ma nefrah be Aoulad-kum", and when you get that "Oqbal ma tefrahu bi shahadit-hum", etc... [/quote] |
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| Sara |
| 03/21/01 at 22:34:18 |
| Assalam, This is embarressing...'cause it's VERY true!!:):) |
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| halwa |
| 03/22/01 at 09:33:15 |
| Salam alaikum this cant be more true!.. drink coffee...twenty times a day.. walk in huge groups and talk LOUD the marriage pestering starts from when ur 14 AND dont go out to dinner with two ARab families cause they will spend an hour fighting over hte bill..hah.. i guess were just overly generous people..haha Seeba |
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| JustMe |
| 03/25/01 at 04:55:49 |
| I thought I heard a brother once say outside of the mosque: "I barked my car outside the barking lot" |
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