<ol>
<li>You have a 40 lb. bag of rice in your pantry.</li>
<li>You shop 99 ranch.</li>
<li>Everyone thinks you’re “Chinese” no matter what part of Asia your
ancestors were from.</li>
<li>Your parents say, “Don’t forget your heritage.”</li>
<li>You drive mostly Japanese cars.</li>
<li>You’ve learned to keep bargaining even if the prices are rock bottom.</li>
<li>You’ve had to eat parts of animals they don’t even put in hot dogs.</li>
<li>You know what bok choy is.</li>
<li>You’ve gotten little red envelopes around February.</li>
<li>You hear (your name + eee (optional) + yah!) every time someone calls
you (e.g. Jean - ee - yah! or Mary - yah!).</li>
<li>Idiot people try to impress you with pathetic imitation Asian languages,
like the ever-so-popular: ching chong woo bok chi, etc…</li>
<li>The Bio lectures on marine life (seaweed, sea cucumbers, octopii) was
last night’s dinner.</li>
<li>At least one family member wears black wire/plastic frame glasses.</li>
<li>Your parents expect you’ll be best friends with any one off the street
in any given area as long as they are Asian.</li>
<li>An Asian woman comes on campus and people ask: “Is that your mother?”
Well then, “Is it your sister?”</li>
<li>Your relatives’ houses smell like incense, mothballs or both.</li>
<li>Everyone thinks you’re good at math.</li>
<li>Your parents’ vocabulary is filled with “ai-yahs, and Wah’s.”</li>
<li>You learned about the birds and the bees from someone other than your
parents.</li>
<li>You have to call just about all your parent’s friends “Auntie and
Uncle.”</li>
<li>You have 12+ aunts and uncles</li>
<li>Your parents have either make you play the piano, the violin, or both.</li>
<li>When going to other people’s houses, you always have to bring a gift.</li>
<li>You own a rice cooker or two.</li>
</ol>
<p>From what I’ve seen:</p>
<p>1) If it is between getting to class on time or being late. It is way better to run top speed. It doesnt matter who’s staring.</p>
<p>2) Library’s (since they are filled with so many that look similar) are places to socialize . . . loudly.</p>
<p>Of course these are prolly more foreigners than Asian Americans.</p>
<p>A lot of those apply to my family too, and were not Asian. That probably applies to many families whose parents are immigrants.</p>
<p>haha…am n indian and so many of them apply to me!! haha, though some seem to apply more to the chinese/japanese n koreans… :p</p>