Are you a true Indian?

Are you a true Indian? Then check this list and make sure you satisfy atleast half the conditions.

• Your dad is some sort of engineer or doctor.Your parents say, "Don't forget your heritage."
• You know what's going to happen in every Hindi movie before it happens
• Your father and grandfathers have hair on their ears
• An Asian woman comes on campus and people ask: "Is that your mother? Well then, is it your sister?"
• Your relatives' houses smell like incense, mothballs or bothYour parents say, "Calculus? I took calculus in 8th grade!!"
• You either really, really want to go to NYU or really, really want to stay away from it
• "You want a stereo! When I was your age, I didn't even have shoes!
• "Your dad still pulls his socks up to his knees, you know, the ones with the blue and pink stripes at the top.
• Your family owns a tennis racquet.
• You buy corn oil by the gallon.
• Your family owns butcher knives bigger than your head.
• You arrive one or two hours late to a party and think it's normal.
• Everyone in your family has pet names, which sound nowhere close to their real names.
• You are standing next to the two largest suitcases at the Airport.
• You talk for an hour at the front door when leaving someone's house.
• When your parents meet strangers and talk for a few minutes, you discover your talking to a distant cousin.
• 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.
• There is a sale on any item, you buy 100 of them.
• You have a 'Singer Brother' sewing machine at home.
• 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.
• You know no one who has studied music.
• You went to a university as far away from home as possible.
• You still came back home to live with your parents after you had finished.
• Your best friend got married at the age of 16.
• You like the meat well done.
• You eat onions with everything.
• You use chilli sauce instead of tomato ketchup.
• You say you hate Indian films but secretly watch them with your parents.
• You teach Westerners swearwords in your language.
• You order Indian food in your own language to impress the people your with but the waiters don't understand 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 always say "open the light" instead of "turn the light on".
• You secure your baggage with a rope.
• Your walking out of customs with your trolley at the airport and you see all 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 would freak out if your sister wore a crop top baring her midriff...but wearing a sari is perfectly acceptable
• Your parents call all your friends "Beta" whether they are Indian or not
• Your parent are panicking if you aren't married when you turn 25
• Either you really like Indians of the opposite sex or you can't stand them
• Your mother measures wealth in gold and diamonds
• A horoscope must decide your wedding date
• Your parents drink 6 cups of tea a day
• You are sick and tired of answering questions about "the dot"
• Your friends could not explain your religion to someone if they tried
• You could not explain your religion to someone if you tried
• You have cousins you have never met, whose names you don't know, but who insist they're related to you, even though they bear NO resemblance to...anyone YOU know.
• Your parents push the concept of an arranged marriage on you and try and demonstrate how well it works whenever they're not fighting.
• You notice that whenever you go to another Indian's house, your parents always talk about work and business.
• The second you pull out of someone's driveway, your parents start talking...about them.
• Every few months your parents say when they're moving back to India
• No one ever seems to call ahead of time to say they are coming over for a visit.
• Your proud to be Indian - and you pass these jokes on to all your Indian friends!

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