 You know you're a Lao person if....  Your mother likes to wear 24 carat gold (pure gold) jewellery.
You ask your parents help on one problem and 2 hours later they're still lecturing.
You have a 40 lb. bag of rice in your pantry.
You have packages of noodles in your pantry.
Everyone thinks you're "Thai or Chinese" no matter what part of Laos your ancestors were from.
You've been to a buddhist temple.
At special occasions, monks or ordinary people tie a white yarn or string on your wrist for good luck.
Your parents enjoy comparing you to their friends' kids or other Lao people.
Your parents say, "Don't forget your heritage."
You've eaten inner parts of animals they don't even put in hot dogs.
You like to eat chicken feet.
Piles of shoes and thongs tend to make it hard to open the front, back and closet doors.
Everybody calls you by your nickname.
Your last name is really long.
Idiot people try to impress you with pathetic imitation Asian languages, like the ever-so-popular:
ching chong woo bok chi, etc...
Your parents say leaving rice in your bowl is a sin.
Your parents hover over your tired, caffeine-drugged body at 12 midnight to say, "Back in Laos, we studied and worked harder."
Everyone thinks you're good at math.
Your parents insist you marry within your race.
Your parents have never kissed you.
Your parents have never kissed each other.
Your parents have never hugged you.
Your parents have never hugged each other.
You learned about the birds and the bees from someone other than your parents.
"You want a computer! When I was your age, I didn't even have shoes!!"
You have to call just about all your parents friends "Aunty and Uncle."
You will most likely be taller than your parents.
You get nothing if you do well in school, but get in big trouble if you don't.
When going inside other peoples' houses, you always have to take your shoes off.
Your dad still pulls his socks up to his knees.
Your family always cheers for the Asian athlete on TV (i.e., Paradorn Srichaphan).
The furniture in your house never matches the wallpaper, the carpet, the decorations or any of the rest of the furniture.
You own a rice cooker or two.
You buy soy sauce, fish sauce and chilli sauce by the gallon.
Your parents buy you clothes and shoes many sizes too big so you can "grow into it" and wear it for years to come.
You have a statue or picture of Buddha in your house.
You take showers at night.
You put your hands together (vai position) when you meet an elder to show your respect.
Your parents plant vegetables everywhere in the backyard.
Your parents has a chopping board made from a tree trunk.
Your parents tell you that Thai people talk sweet (paak vaan).
At parties/weddings/gatherings, you will see a group of men and women playing cards.
You like mangoes and coconut juice.
You know what "por gun mai" means.
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