• Your mother has a short-haired, curly perm.
  
• Your dad is some sort of engineer.
  
• Your parents still tried to get you into places half-price saying you were 12 when you were really 15.
  
• You ask your parents help on one math problem and 2 hours later they're still lecturing.
  
• You have a 40 lb. bag of rice in your pantry.
  
• You shop 99 Ranch.
  
• You've had a bowl haircut at one point in your life.
  
• Your parents enjoy comparing you to their friends' kids.
  
• You drive mostly Japanese cars.
  
• You've learned to keep bargaining even if the prices are rock bottom.
  
• You've had to eat parts of animals they don't even put in hot dogs.
  
• You know what bok choy is.
  
• You've ever gotten little red envelopes around February.
  
• Piles of clothes and shoes tend to make it hard to open the front, back and closet doors.
  
• You hear (your name + eee (optional) + yah!) every time someone calls you. (e.g., Jean- ee - yah! or Mary - yah!).
  
• You have NO eyelashes.
  
• Idiot people try to impress you with pathetic imitation Asian languages, like the ever-so-popular: ching chong woo bok chi, etc...
  
• Your parents say leaving rice in your bowl is a sin.
  
• The Bio lectures on marine life (seaweed, sea cucumbers, octopii) was last night's dinner.
  
• Moire than half your family wears glasses.
  
• Your parents hover over your tired, caffeine-drugged body at 12 midnight to say, "In Korea (or other native country), we studied even more."
  
• 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 both.
  
• Everyone thinks you're good at math.
  
• Your parents' vocabulary is filled with "Ai-yahs and Wah's."
  
• You like $1.75 movies.
  
• You like $1.50 movies even more.
  
• Your aunts and uncles bring you back adorable clothing from Asia with fuzzy bunnies, vinyl ducks and English words that make no sense, in great colors like yellow, pink, magenta, orange and the ever popular lime green.
  
• Your parents insist you marry within your race.
  
• You either really, really want to go to a UC or really, really want to stay away from it.
  
• You learned about the birds and the bees from someone other than your parents.
  
• "You want a stereo! When I was your age, I didn't even have shoes!!"
  
• You have to call just about all your parent's friends "Auntie and Uncle."
  
• You have 12+ aunts and uncles.
  
• At expensive restaurants, you order a delicious glass of water for your beverage.
  
• You will most likely be taller than your parents.
  
• Your parents have either made you play the piano, the violin or both.
  
• You get nothing if you do well in school, but get in big trouble if you don't.
  
• When going to other peoples' houses, you always have to bring a gift.
  
• 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, golf clubs, or both.
  
• Your family always cheers for the Asian athlete on TV (i.e., Michael Chang).
  
• You have rocks, sticks, leaves and strange-smelling, unknown substances in your pantry for use for soup.
  
• You own a rice cooker or two.
  
• You buy soy sauce by the gallon.
  
• Your family owns butcher knives bigger than your head.
  
• Your parents tell you about how long it took for them to get to school, how horrible the weather was in their native country, and how much they still appreciated going.
  
• Your parents buy you clothes and shoes many sizes too big so you can "grow into it" and wear it for years to come.

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