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* you and all your korean friends have pencil cases which has more pens/pencils you need for the day
* your mother has a short-haired, curly perm
* your parents still try to get you into places half-price saying you were 12 when you were really 15
* you have a 40 lb. bag of rice in your pantry
* everyone thinks you’re CHINESE no matter what part of Asia your ancestors were from
* your parents enjoy comparing you to their friend’s kids friends…(but when you compare them to other parents, they say, “DON’T COMPARE!”)
* piles of shoes tend to make it hard to open the front, back and closet doors
* you hear (your name + ee (optional)+yah!) every time someone calls you.(e.g. Jean-ee-yah! or Mary-yah!)
* your parents say leaving rice in your bowl is a sin
* everyone thinks you’re good at math
* your aunts and uncles bring you back adorable clothing from Korea, with fuzzy bunnies, vinyl ducks and English words that make no sense, in great colors like yellow, pink, magenta, orange, and the ever-so-popular lime green
* your parents insist you marry a Korean
* you learned about the birds and the bees from someone other than your parents
* your parents say, “you want a stereo?!? When i was your age, I didn’t even have shoes!”
* you will most likely be taller than your parents
* your parents have either made you play the piano, the violin, or both
* when going to other peoples’ houses, you always have to bring a gift
* your dad still pulls his socks up to his knees
* your family owns a tennis racquet, golf clubs, or both
* you own a rice cooker or two
* you buy soy sauce by the gallon
* you do that twirling thing with your pen
* you always have a box of ramyun
* you bring home all A’s and one B, and your parents yell, “Why did you get a B?”
* there is a 75% chance that you’ll marry someone with the same last name
* white people always say, “Say my name in korean!”
* when you were in Junior High, you were a nerd
* you either have to be a doctor, lawyer, or some big-time business tycoon
* when some mega-mega nerd student is in the korean newspaper, your parents say, “why can’t you be like him?”
* no matter how well your parents speak english, they can’t say “wood”
* When someone points you out, they say “that one chinese girl (or guy).
* Your parents were ecstatic when the ‘88 Olympics were held in Korea
* Girls—You have this shrilly whiny voice that goes along with “oppaaaahhh”
* Girls—No matter how skinny you are, you are still on a diet
* You long for some good ol’ Korean cooking.
* You have the ability to tell the different Asians apart (ie. Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese).
* When your mom hears or watches something sad, she’ll make this repeated sound really fast like “tte” a million times a minute.
* Kumon is a household word.
* When guests are leaving your house, you have to stand outside your house saying bye to them, not to mention bowing a gazillion times.
* You’ll go to a movie with your parents, and afterwards, they’ll say “I don’t understand.”
* you’re going out with a friend and your parents need to know their name, where they live, their phone #, what their parents do for a living, what kind of grades they get, what they got on their SATs, how they dress, if they go to church, and if they’re male or female.
* After you’re get off the phone with someone from the opposite sex, your parents will start interrogating you about that person (except the last one). You’ll talk to someone from the opposite sex two days in a row, and your parents immeditaely think there’s something going on.
* You bring home straight As, and your parents say, “So? You’re supposed to get that! When I was in Korea…”
* Your mom will laugh with her hand covering her mouth.
* You have a mini-van which your mom drives.
* You’ll be cooking kalbi outside, and neighbors will ask what the aroma is.
* You’ll have all this “asian pride” or “Korean Pride”
* You have perfect attendance from grades K through 12.
* You are with a friend of the opposite sex and give a friendship hug goodbye, and your mother witnesses it and starts flipping out like you just lost your virginity or something and you hear her go, “O-mo, O-mo-na!!”
* Your parents encourage you not to get into fights, but if it is about your nationality or race, “Beat the crap out of them, ban-choo-gyu-na, tell them your father was a blackbelt in Korea.”
* You have ginseng in your kitchen or there is some form of ginseng in the house
* you have one of those one foot high dinner tables you sit on the floor with
* you have a straw mat
* your fathers and uncles have really built and muscular looking calves
* your mother wants you home by midnight during prom night
* your elders spontaneously fart out of nowhere while you’re talking to them- but it’s perfectly polite
* you raise your leg by accident and your white friend says, “Hey is that karate?”
* your parents hve the R’s and L’s backwards
* you have a homepage
* Dye your hair…reddish brown for best results (but then again, blonde turns out to be reddish-brown anyway)
* Your parents eat kimchee with their spaghetti
* Your parents have told you that you will die in the middle of the night if you leave the fan on running
* The Korean newspaper is the 2nd bible to your parents.
* If you are a girl, you spend $150-$250 getting a straight pah-mah to make your hair look naturally straight.
* When your mom cooks, she never measures anything. And when you ask her how much you should put it in she says “Oh you know. a little bit here. a little there. just taste.”