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1- You arrive one hour late to a party and you find out that you are the first one to arrive...
2- Everyone older than you is big sis, big bro, uncle, aunty, grandma or grandpa....
3- You wear a suit to a wedding... and you are only 3 years old....
4- The wedding takes an hour and the group pictures take five hours...
5- Your mom and sister together own more jewelry than a Chinese jewelry store...
6- Your parents' idea of a vacation is to go down to the temples in India...
7- You talk for an hour at the front door when leaving someone's house...
8- The second your guests leave the house, your parents start talking about them....
9- You rent a cassette from the grocery store, it's been dubbed 6 times... & you return it 3 months later...
10- You go to a Tamil Cultural program only to find one barathanatyam recital (Indian classical dance) and six hip hop shows...
11- You are somehow related to every new friend you meet...
12- Your remote control is still in its plastic packet...
13- You get a 95% on a test and your parents ask 'What happened to the other 5%?!'
14- You stare at other Indian people when they walk by...
15- You change the TV channel when there liplock scenes in Indian movies when you are watching it with your parents but don't bat an eyelid when there are smooching scenes in Hollywood movies...
16- Your parents never address each other by name....
17- When you get your first part-time job, your parents expect you to give them half of your salary for them to save up
18- Your mother has a minor dispute with her sister-in law and doesn't talk to her for 10 years...
19-Your parents say Swiss instead of Switzerland , Germany is German and England is London...
20- You go to a party and your aunt comments on how your skin color has changed...
22- When the teacher took attendance and there was a sudden pause, you put your hand up and said 'here.'
23- You shortened your name to make it sound Anglo.
24- You have dinner at 10 pm.
25- When your parents say 'BBC' they don't mean the news channel but your uncle Nathan or aunty Kamala.
26- It's normal for all the relatives to bathe the groom on his wedding day.
28-Your aunties tease you about a particularly eligible cousin... & you like it!!!
29- You serve all your guests tea with milk and spoons of sugar...
30- You only stop putting more rice on your guest's dinner plate 7 times after they tell you to stop.
31- Anytime you speak back to your parents, you get: 'I toiled my life for you, and this is how you repay me?!' - 'Naanga eppadi khasta pattathukku nee ithuvum solluvae ithukku melayum solluvae!'
32- If you are a girl, you are expected to come home before dark - however if it's a son, 'OK rasa, jaakirathaa poitu vaa...' "Okay dear, go on and return safely.."
33- Halfway through your shower you realize that your Head and Shoulders shampoo is gone and has been replaced by Siyakkai shampoo (Indian herbal shampoo).
34- You walk in to another Tamil family's house and they have the same furniture and dining set as yours.
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