Your mother has a short-haired, curly perm.
Your parents still tried to get you into places half-price saying you
were 12 when you were really 15.
You’ve had a bowl haircut at one point in your life.
Your parents enjoy comparing you to their friends’ kids.
Your parents say, “Don’t forget your heritage.”
You drive mostly Japanese cars.
You’ve learned to keep bargaining even if the prices are rock bottom.
You know what’s going to happen in every Hindi movie before it happens
Idiot people try to impress you with pathetic imitation Asian languages.
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
you like R14 movies
you like R7 movies even more.
“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 from both your mother’s and your father’s side.
The vast majority of the people related to you wear glasses. Thick glasses.
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.”