> Doesn't this sound so familiar?
> 
>   YOU ARE AN SOUTH ASAIN IF.....
> 
>   1. Everything you eat is savored in garlic, onion and tomatoes.
> 
>   2. You try and reuse gift wrappers, gift boxes, and of course
> aluminium
>   foil.
> 
>   3. You try to eject food particles from between your teeth by pressing
>   your tongue against
>   them and making a peculiar noise like, tshick,tshick, tschick,
> tschick.
> 
>   4. You are standing next to the two largest size suitcases at the
>  Airport.
> 
>   5. You arrive one or two hours late to a party - and think it's
> normal.
> 
>   6. You peel the stamps off letters that the Postal Service missed to
>  mark
>   up.
> 
>   7. You recycle Wedding Gifts.
> 
>   8. You name your children in rhythms (example,Sita & Gita, Ram &
> Shyam)
> 
>   9. All your children have pet names, which sound nowhere close to
> their
>   real names.
> 
>   10. You take Indian snacks anywhere it says "No Food Allowed"
> 
>   11. You talk for an hour at the front door when leaving someone's
>  house.
> 
>   12. You load up the family car with as many people as possible.
> 
>   13. You use plastic to cover anything new in your house whether it's
>  the
>   remote control, VCR,
>   carpet or new couch.
> 
>   14. Your parents tell you not to care what your friends think, but
> they
>   won't let you do
>   certain things because of what the other "Uncles and Aunties" will
>  think.
> 
>   15. You buy and display crockery, which is for special occasions,which
>   never happen.
> 
>   16. You have a vinyl tablecloth on your kitchen table.
> 
>   17. You use grocery bags to hold garbage.
> 
>   18. You keep leftover food in your fridge in as many numbers of bowls
>  as
>   possible.
> 
>   19. Your kitchen shelf is full of jam jars, varieties of bowls and
>   plastic utensils (got free
>   with some household items).
> 
>   20. You carry a stash of your own food whenever you travel (and travel
>   means any car ride
>   longer than 15 minutes).
> 
>   21. You own a rice cooker or a pressure cooker.
> 
>   22. You fight over who pays the dinner bill.
> 
>   23. You live with your parents and you are 40 years old. (And they
>  prefer
>   it that way).
> 
> 
>   24. You don't use measuring cups when cooking.
> 
> 
>   25. You never learnt how to stand in a queue.
> 
>   26. You can only travel if there are 5 persons at least to see you off
>  or
>   receive you whether you
>   are travelling by bus, train or plane.
> 
>   27. If she is NOT your daughter, you always take interest in knowing
>   whose daughter has run with
>   whose son and feel proud to spread it at the velocity of more than the
>   speed of light.
> 
>   28. You only make long distance calls after 11 p.m.
> 
>   29. If you don't live at home, when your parents call, they ask if
>  you've
>   eaten, even if it's
>   midnight.
> 
>   30. You call an older person you never met before "uncle."
> 
>   31. When your parents meet strangers and talk for a few minutes, you
>   discover you're talking to a
>   distant cousin.
> 
>   32. 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 foreign calls.
> 
>   33. You have bed sheets on your sofas so as to keep them from getting
>   dirty.
> 
>   34. It's embarrassing if your wedding has less than 600 people.
> 
>   35. All your Tupperware is stained with food color.
> 
>   36. You have drinking glasses made of steel.
> 
>   37. You have mastered the art of bargaining in shopping.
> 
>   38. You edit mails received from others before sending to your freinds
>   makins as you have written the contents.
> 
>   39. You have really enjoyed reading this mail - forward it to as many
>   south asians as possible
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