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Lebanon: you know you're an Arab when....?

I just found this so funny lol ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ You have a Sitto always cooking for you You go to Arabic Restaurants, tell the owners you’re Arab, and think you’re going to get free food. You fight over who’s going to pay the bill You act like you want to pay, but in reality you hate to pay You would never call it Pita Bread You feel proud when someone famous or a celebrity has any Arabic blood in them. you belly dance as if your life depended on it If you are an Arab woman, you dye your hair an obviously fake shade of blonde that is nonexistent in nature and swear that it's natural. If you're a single Arab guy, you tell women you're a "successful businessman" or that you "own a successful business back home" even if you're an unemployed goat herder. Your favorite food is warag dawali, but you are embarrassed to tell your friends that you eat leaves for dinner. You get really happy and call the whole family to the room when there is a special or documentary on Arabs or anything Arab-related on CNN or PBS. You don't use the word "tease" in English cause you feel weird. You say “bolice” and “bastor” for “police” and “pastor.” You smoke as if it were your last day on earth…and you only smoke Marlboro. You cook a meal that lasts 3 days Your father swears at you with words that affect him You have 500,000,000 cousins Your relatives alone could populate a small city At weddings it takes the bride and groom 4 hours to kiss all the guests You have a gold necklace of your name written in Arabic Your middle name is your father’s first name If you are male, you’re named after your grandfather or great-grandfather You play cards till the break of dawn You can’t have a meal without bread You never run out of bizzer You bump Arabic music at all times You have to constantly remind your American friends to take off their shoes when they enter your house You've had a shoe thrown at you by your mother You get offended when Americans call Arabic bread “Pita bread” You teach your American friends Arabic word (mostly bad ones) and get happy when they use them in normal conversations You have a difficult Arabic name so you come up with an Americanized version of it like “Sam” or “Mike.” You've had someone tell you your fortune through your coffee cup You love Um Kalthoom and if you don’t, your dad makes you listen to her and tries to translate the words into English so you can appreciate her as much as he does Your dad eats mensef with his hands and forces his son to “join the men” You or your relatives own a grocery store, liquor store, restaurant, or gas station You eat hummus at least 4 times a week You own and/or play the tubleh You make Turkish coffee before leaving home to work, at the office, before lunch, after lunch, when having guests, before the guest leave, after the guests leave and before you go to bed You still have stored suitcases of clothes that you used to wear when you were five Everyone is a family friend If you are 25 and unmarried, your parents make you feel that you are getting old You hug and kiss relatives you have never seen before in your life You curse at your teachers or strangers in Arabic You flip out when someone mistakes you for a Mexican or Indian 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 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 4 cousins, an uncle, a brother-in-law and 7 friends named Mohammed You arrive one or two hours late to a party and think it’s normal You are standing next to the largest suitcases at the airport 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 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 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

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i am sorry i found most of the things in the list not true and OVER. i only liked this one "You fight over who’s going to pay the bill" lol so true!!
lol im palestinian and every thing u said is so true this was really funny :)
LOL i love these things, i can relate to almost all of them except for the blonde hair one mine is and will always be brown :-P you belly dance as if your life depended on it ^^ and yess i take my bellydancing seriously, grrrr lol
Sooo true
yes it is funny! :D I totally agree with most of them, but the are a lot that are so not Lebanese.
loool sis thanks for this, wallah it made my day. most of them are so true :P my favourite ones were how the father would swear with words that affect him. lool thats so true, i mean when you hear a father swearing at his kid and saying something like 'ya bint/ya ibn..' , i'm like 'ya3ny you know you just insulted yourself too there, right?' :P oh yeah and the 500,000,000 cousins :P what arab can deny it? lool. awesome post sis, thanks. salaam ^_^
that's why I should kill all Arabs (except Lebanese)
LOL its all true.
okay here's another TRUE one! you meet a girl on the internet (you're a girl too), and after 3 months, you discover that she's your distant cousin's cousin... and she tries to hook you up with your incommon single cousin to marry you off!
You share a common name so you are automatically accepted as family whether you are or aren't ...
LOL so true... especially the one about long distance calls!! another one is that you call all of your dad's friends 3amo :)
"You can’t have a meal without bread" LOL...this one is so true.
Let me just say I flip out when someone thinks I'm a Mexican. I am so proud to be Middle Eastern and I feel offended that they did not recognize my heritage. And let's face it, I always offer to pay, but I so hate it!
LOL I definitely flipped out when people mistaked me for an Indian or Mexican!!
you know you're an Arab when.... the hummus you eat isn't store brought or called "hummus dip"
Hahah they're all so true :D I laughed at all of them, and yes i've been mistaken to be Mexican by a Mexican :D
hahahaha that was soo funny but my parents drink 6 cups of turkish coffee a day :P
HAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!! THA BILL THING IS SO TRUE! My family is Syrian, btw. That's hilarious!I like the one how your dad calls you something that is offending to him.I always tell my dad that. hahahha
lovvvvve it :)