UR and Arab when...

You know you are an Arab when:

• A visa is not a credit card.
• Your refer to your dad's friends as Amoo.
• You have an endless supply of pistachios, dates, and pumpkin seeds.
• Your parents say you're becoming Americanized anytime you get into trouble.
• 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 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.
• 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 your Arabic.
• You always say "open the light" instead of "turn the light on".
• Your parents drink 6 cups of tea a day.
• You've had a shoe thrown at you by your mother.
• Your family likes to barbeque year around.
• At least one person in your house eats raw Kebbe.
• When eating bizr is a lifestyle and not a snack.
• You're proud to be an Arab.