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You Know You're an Arab When...

You refuse to drive anything but a BMW or Mercedes...

You're always on the verge of trading in your Honda/Nissan for a Beamer or
Mercedes....

Your wardrobe consists of black, black, and more black...

Your Armani pants don't fit you, but you wear them anyways.

Your refer to your dad's friends as Amoo. ..

You have a houka as a centerpiece in your living room. ...

You have an endless supply of pistachios, dates, and pumpkin seeds...

You actually like yogurt drinks. ...yea its good

You either tip 2% or 50% but never 15%. ...

Your parents say you're becoming Americanized anytime you get into trouble.

You hug and kiss relatives you have never seen before in your life....

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. ..

You walk down a street with Arab stores and you are trying to eavesdrop on
others' Arabic conversations.

Your parents want you to become a doctor.

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 have told your kid not to walk the floor barefoot or they'll catch a
cold. ..

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 friends tell you to be quiet when you are on the phone with your
family because now you are screaming at the top of your lungs...

Your mother has a minor disagreement with her (or your dad's) sister and
doesn't talk to her for ten years. ....

You hide everything from your parents. ...

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.

If you are male, you only date Westerners and even secretly get engaged to
one to scare your family, until you finally end up marrying an Arabic
girl....
If you are female, every guy you know dates Western girls who walk all over
him, then when he's finally ready to get married, he comes to ask for
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 went to a university as far away from home as possible....

You still came back home to live with your parents after you graduate...

You teach Westerners swearwords in your Arabic

You always say "open the light" instead of "turn the light on". ...

You're walking out of customs with your trolley at the airport and you see
at least twenty-five members of your family who have come to pick you up.

If you are male, you notice everyone holding their breath until you get out
of the bathroom, go back to your seat and close your eyes & pretend to fall
asleep on the airplane...

You go back to your parents' country and people treat you like a member
of...the royal family...

Your parents drink 6 cups of tea a day...

You've had a shoe thrown at you by your mother. ....

You're proud to be an Arab