You know you're Armenian when...

You know you're an Armenian when..

1.A visa is not a credit card.

2.You refer to your dad's friends as Amo

3.You have an endless supply of pistachios, dates, and
pumpkin seeds..

4.Your parents say you're becoming Americanized anytime you
get into trouble.

5.You curse at your teachers or strangers in Armenian.

6.You can spot an Armenian a mile away and they have spotted
you because they keep staring.

7.After a family meal, the women fight to death over who
should wash the dishes while the men sit on their behinds
and discuss politics, waiting for their coffee.

8.Your parents want you to become a doctor or engineer.

9.You use your forehead and eyebrow(s) to point something out.

10.Your mother yells at the top of her lungs to call you to
dinner even if you're in the next room.

11. You have at least thirty cousins.

12.You arrive one or two hours late to a party and think
it's normal.

13.You are standing next to the largest suitcases at the
Airport

14.You talk for an hour at the front door when leaving
someone's house.

15.You say bye 17 times on the phone.

16.When your parents meet strangers and talk for a few
minutes, you discover they know one of your uncles back home.

17.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 when making long distance calls.

18. Your mother does everything for you if you are male.

19.You do all the housework and cooking if you are female.

20.Your relatives alone could populate a small city.

21.You still came back home to live with your parents after
you graduate.

22.You teach Westerners swearwords in Armenian

23.You always say "open the light" instead of "turn the
light on".

24.Your parents drink 6 cups of coffee a day.

25. You get yelled at for talking when the NEWS is on.

26. You think System of a Down is the greatest rock band of all time.

 

27. When you know you're not armenian

 

I'm not Armenian, I'm American. Funny though.

 

28. You're obsessed with Armenian genocide

 

A_J, is there a typo in your sig or should it be "our" and not "are?"

 

is he really armenian?

 

when your name is Armenian_Jedi??

 

Easy to mistake with being Pole... Are you sure you're Armenian???

 

29. You refer customers to Armenian-oriented films at Blockbuster.

 

This'll be a short topic.

 

30. You make too many threads about Armenia or being Armenian

 

I have an Armenian-American friend. She's loud.

 

26. You think System of a Down is the greatest rock band of all time.

Sweet, I'm Armenian!

 

Go Armenia GO!

 

31. Your heritage primarily resides in Armenia.

 

oh, oh, oh!

32. You have the tail of a horse draped across your cranium.

 

Obsess much? And I thought I was bad with my German heritage...

 

lol

 

When you actually know where Armenia is.

 

1.A visa is not a credit card.

3.You have an endless supply of pistachios, dates, and
pumpkin seeds..

8.Your parents want you to become a doctor or engineer.

10.Your mother yells at the top of her lungs to call you to
dinner even if you're in the next room.

12.You arrive one or two hours late to a party and think
it's normal.

14. You talk for an hour at the front door when leaving
someone's house.

15.You say bye 17 times on the phone.

25. You get yelled at for talking when the NEWS is on.




Those are the ones that fit my family. Ánd we're Americans, living in Germany.

 

I'm sorry, I think you just spelled "Armenian" as "American"

 

23.You always say "open the light" instead of "turn the
light on".

My grandmother says this. Her parents immigrated from the Ukraine in the 30's.


System of a Down rocks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

People from other countries rock!!!!!

 

" 28. You're obsessed with Armenian genocide"

dammit! I wanted to say that (only, much less neutral)


and apart from that added item, the whole list applies to all people(s) in that general area (and probably a lot of countries/ cultures farther north and south)
because I recognize all but one of them in the Turkish side of my family, mostly my father

 

33. You keep reminding people you're Armenian. Over and over and over.

 

I'm sorry, I think you just spelled "Armenian" as "American"

Haha.

*grins*

The news at 8pm is like a sacred ritual for Germans. My step-father is German. We can't make a sound when his news is on.

My mother is pregnant and is craving pistachios. Therefore we have many of them around.

Yes, I admit it, with certain people, I can't get off the phone.

And it's not my fault when you're about to leave and then some interesting topiccomes up and you have to discuss it...

Yelling through the house royally annoys my step-father. *grins evilly* I relish yelling through the house.

I want to be a doctor (forensic pathologist), and my mother agrees with me. My step-father wants me to study Theology (like him). Heck no...

My mother is crrently having to fill out forms for my step-father's Green Card. Therefore, in our house, not to mention that no one has credit cards in the family, a visa is a visa, not a credit card.

And I'm always late. Being late to a party is nothing.