You KNOW you are IRANIAN when...

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Honest Hassan
by Honest Hassan
10-Apr-2008
 

You KNOW you're IRANIAN when :
    
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Your refer to your dad's friends as Uncle...
  
You have an endless supply of pistachios, dates,and pumpkinseeds...
   
 After a family meal, the women fight to the death
        over who should wash the dishes while the men sit on
        their behinds and discuss politics, waiting for
        their tea...
  
        Your parents want you to become a doctor or
        engineer. ...
  
        You use your forehead and eyebrows to point
        something out...
  
        Your mother yells at the top of her lungs to call
        you to dinner even if you're in the next room....
  
       You have at least thirty cousins. ...
  
       You arrive one or two hours late to a party and
       think it's normal.
  
       You are standing next to the largest suitcases at
       the Airport.
  
       You talk for an hour at the front door when
       leaving someone's house....
  
       You say bye 17 times on the phone. ...
  
       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.
  
       Your mother does everything for you if you are
       male
  
       You do all the housework and cooking if you are
       female...
  
       You still came back home to live with your
      parents after you graduate...

 

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