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  • 50 ways to tell if you're lebanese, (also applies to lebanese armenians).

    Here are some useful and thoughtful points that
    help us tell we are arabs...To all those who live
    outside Lebanon, In America especially:
    ``enjoy the STEREOTYPES``.

    1. You say "bolice" and "bastor" for "police" and
    "pastor."

    2. You inherited or will inherit land in your home
    country.

    3. You brag about your kids even if they are bad.

    4. Your spouse is also your first cousin.

    5.

    6. You own a grocery store, liquor store, or gas
    station.

    7. You're fat and blame it on the kids, or you're bald
    and blame it on the stress.

    8. Your aunt asks you when she can dance at your
    wedding.

    9. You smoke as if it were your last day on
    earth...and you only smoke MARLBOROS.

    10. You wear more cologne than deodorant.

    11. You pronounce "comfortable" cun-fort-a-bull.

    12. You say the letter "h" like "etch."

    13. You put olive oil in and on everything and brag
    about how healthy it is.

    14. You gossip about your own family...with members of
    your own family.

    15. You have more then 4 kids.

    16. You eat humus at least 4 times a week.

    17. You cook a meal that lasts 3 days.

    18. You talk crap about the abeed, but love them when
    they buy from you.

    19. At parties, you think it's cool to dance and smoke
    at the same time.

    20. You pity anyone who is not an Arab and think all
    other cultures are morally corrupt.
    21. You have fruit trees in your backyard and when
    they are in season you live on them.

    22. You don't use the word "tease" in English cause
    you feelweird.

    23. You watch the hell out of the Arabic channel and
    talk crap about the rest.

    24. Your father swears at you with words that effect
    himself.

    25. You have 500,000,000 cousins.

    26. At weddings it takes the bride and groom 4 hours
    to kiss all the guests.

    27. You "get down" from the car instead of "getting
    out" of it.

    28. You act like you want to pay, but in reality you
    hate to pay.

    29. You have a gold necklace of your name written in
    Arabic.

    30. You own and/or play a ""tableh"

    31. Your middle name is your father's first name.

    32. If you are male, you're named after your
    grandfather or great-grandfather.

    33. You play cards till the break of dawn.

    34. You never run out of bizzer.

    35. You can't have a meal without bread.

    36. You get offended when Americans call Arabic bread
    "Pita bread,"

    37.

    38. You feel proud when someone famous or a celebrity
    has any Arabic blood in them.

    39. You teach your American friends Arabic words
    mostly bad ones)and get happy when they use them in
    normal conversations.

    40. Your Mom has a creative nickname for you like
    "Susu,"Natoosheh," or "Tuntooneh."

    41. You have a difficult Arabic name so you come up
    with an Americanized version of it like "Sam" or
    "Mike."

    42. You have someone tell you your fortune through
    your coffee cup.

    43. 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.

    44. Three or more relatives live in your neighborhood.

    45. 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.

    46. Your favorite food is warag anab, but you are
    embarrassed to tell your friends that you eat leaves
    for dinner.

    47. You get really happy and call the whole family to
    the room when there is a special or documentary on
    Arabs or anything Arabic related on CNN or PBS.

    48. You use church as a social ground to meet
    potential wives/husbands

    49. You have a uni-brow...and if you don't, you pluck
    it.

    50. You bump Arabic music at all times!

  • #2
    Hahahaha, quite true.
    When the World Wide Web was born, things were quite simple. The internet supported just one device (the PC) and the browsers available were too primitive for me.

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    • #3
      What happened to 5 and 37? You didn't like'em?
      this post = teh win.

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      • #4
        Ummm....the majority of these can apply to any ethnicity, including anglo whittie Americans.

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