YOU KNOW YOU ARE CAMBODIAN IF...
1. Your parents wear clothes that don't match.
2. When you eat rice with just about anything.
3. When everyone thinks you know karate.
4. When you think you know karate.
5. You think 5'6" is tall.
6. You have a 40 lb. bag of rice in your pantry
7. Your parents enjoy comparing you to their friend's kids.
8. You drive asian cars.
9. If your house smell like pohoc.
10. When your parents tell you to speak khmer at all time to them.
11. Your parents are overprotective (When I was younger.....Now my mom's a little bit more lenient)
12. You hear (your name+eee or ah or yah or me)everytime someone calls you (Yes! So true!)
13. You have alot of mings or poos (yes I do have a lot of aunts and uncles)
14. You are almost taller then your parents. (Almost!)
15. You have been to Long Beach at least once. (To visit my half-siblings)
16. You have relatives in California.
17. When your parents lecture you about anything for hours, but its seems like days.
18. When your parents got alot of khmer movies, chinese movies, kung fu movies, just piling in you living room and its about to overflow. (khmer karaoke dvds actually)
19. When you get good grades your parents don't give you anything but saying "good"
20. When see any khmer person you have to chepe(put your hands like you are praying)
21. Your parents would tell you that you are lucky because you are not in cambodia because they walked from here to there.
22. Your parents tell you in cambodia they have chores and if you don't do it, you get a whoop.
23. You have hella chopsticks everywhere. Well you might as well use them to make a small house with them.
24. The girls always have to wash dishes, clean the house, take care of younger siblings.
25. If you go the a department store and you go straight to the name brand clothing center and your parents go to 50%-75% section.
26. When you have anything leftover from dinner, for example, leftover rice you give it to them.
27. You must have tasted pohoc once. (It's gross, trust me XP)
28. Every khmer food you eat has to at least have some fish sauce.
29. When someonce cusses you at another language you cuss in your language.
30. No matter if you are khmer...peeps still think you are chinese.
31. Every khmer friend you have...you at least call one of them your cousin because you known them for along time. besides peeps say you guys look like brothers and sisters.
32. your khmer if u can say khmer.......
33. When you was young you use to eat rice with soy sauce.
34. You are not that light complicated...you are somewhere between medium or dark.
35. When your parents tells you that they are going to hit you...but you are just wondering why you haven't got any bruises yet.
36. Your have pictures of your past and present everywhere.
37. When your parents care about what other people will think about them.
38. For example, you go to a khmer person's house to visit...and you are hungry for pizza and that khmer family order pizza and you want some...they say that is disrespectful.
39. If your mom carries a name brand purse (doonie..coach)
40. You own, have relative who owns, or know someone who owns a DONUT SHOP!!!
41. You have a life time job at a donut shop.
42. You still work at a donut shop on weekends even if you have a full time job outside.
43. You HATE Donuts!! (Are you kidding me? I love donuts!)
44. You live in Long Beach and/or you have relatives who live in Long Beach, or you go to Long Beach every weekend.
44. You can't live without steamed rice.
45. You're darker than all your other Asian friends.
46. You kick it with black people and other people think you're black too.
47. You hate the name Pol Pot
48. The first cool thing you learned in America is how to break dance.
49. You hate it when people think Cambodians are the dirtiest Asians.
50. You get mistaken for being Laos
51. You are tired of Cambodian stereotypes, so you say that you are"Kampuchean" instead
52. You want other Asians to stop meddling in your country