Subject: How you know you are Moroccan

[Anisa]

• A visa is not a credit card
  
• You refer to your dad's friends as 3amoo
  
• You have an endless supply of pistachios, dates, and pumpkin seeds
  
• Your parents say you're becoming too westernized anytime you get into trouble
  
• You curse at your teachers or strangers in Arabic
  
• You can spot an Arab a mile away and they have spotted at you because they keep staring
  
• 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
  
• When your parents meet strangers and talk for a few minutes, you
  discover they know one of your uncles back home
  
• 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
  
• Your mother does everything for you if you are male
  
• You do all the housework and cooking if you are female
  
• Your relatives alone could populate a small city
  
• You still came back home to live with your parents after you graduate
  
• You teach Westerners swearwords in Arabic
  
• You always say "open the light" instead of "turn the light on".
  
• Your parents drink more than 6 cups of tea a day
  
• You've had a shoe thrown at you by your mother
  
• You're proud to be an Arab - and you pass these jokes on to all your Arab friends!...

[-thetruth_]

I am a pure Moroccan and i do not fit any of the above quotes . maybe the bit about the Arab looks does

[MoroccanColumbo]

thats retro...just showed my mother this thread......made her embrassed about how she talks on the phone....

most moroccans dont just say bye 17 times but also a 15minute hello, asking about the husband, the kids, the kids kids, the neighbours, the cats, the dogs...the sheep that live across the road ..!..lol

Originally Posted by Anisa

• 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
  when making long distance calls
  
  ..

[Ahlam_2005]

LOL anisa.Yes i wondered why the big hello when u make a international call.it really drives me mad.The kadair just dosnet stop.LOL

[Anisa]

I can relate to the following points-

• Your parents say you're becoming too westernized anytime you get into trouble
• 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've had a shoe thrown at you by your mother Which Moroccan hasn't??

[-thetruth_]

Originally Posted by Anisa

I can relate to the following points-

• Your parents say you're becoming too westernized anytime you get into trouble
• 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've had a shoe thrown at you by your mother Which Moroccan hasn't??

hahahhahhahhahahh so true

[Ghazala]

You curse at your teachers or strangers in Arabic

You use your forehead and eyebrows to point something out

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

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

You say bye 17 times on the phone - even when its FREEEEEEEEEEEZING!

You've had a shoe thrown at you by your mother