++ [ originally posted by ebraheej ] ++
I found this in another forum ( skyscrapercity.com) and thought it would be nice to share it with you guys.
You know your an arab when...
You curse at your teachers or strangers in Arabic.
You can spot an Arab a mile away and they have spotted at you
because they keep staring.
After a family meal, the women fight to the death over who should
wash the dishes while the men sit on their behinds and discuss
politics, waiting for their tea.
Your parents want you to become a doctor or engineer.
You use your forehead and eyebrows to point something
out.
Your mother yells at the
top of her lungs to call you to dinner even
if you're in the next room....
You have at least thirty cousins. ...
You arrive one or two hours late to a party and think it's normal.
You talk for an hour at the front door when leaving someone's
house....
You say bye 17 times on the phone. ...
When your parents meet strangers and talk for a few minutes, you
discover they know one of your uncles back home. ...
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. ..
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.....
You still came back home to live with your parents after you
graduate...
You teach Westerners swearwords in Arabic
Your parents drink 6 cups of tea a day...
You've had a shoe thrown at you by your mother. ....
now go along.,,,