You know you’re a sudanese when:-
1. A visa is not a credit card.
2. You have an endless supply of pistachios, dates, and pumpkin seeds.
3. Your parents say you’re becoming Americanized anytime you get into trouble.
4. You curse at your teachers or strangers in Arabic.
5. 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.
6. Your parents want you to become a doctor or engineer.
7. You use your forehead and eyebrows to point something out.
8. Your mother yells at the top of her lungs to call you to dinner even if you’re in the next room.
9. When your parents scream “Im gonna break your neck!!!” other people call it child abuse, we call it love.
10 You have at least thirty cousins.
11. You arrive one or two hours late to a party and think it’s normal.
12. You are standing next to the largest suitcases at the Airport.
13. You talk for an hour at the front door when leaving someone’s house.
14. You say bye 17 times on the phone. .
15. When your parents meet strangers and talk for a few minutes, you discover they know one of your uncles back home.
16. 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.
17. Your mother does everything for you if you are male
18. You do all the housework and cooking if you are female.
19. Your relatives alone could populate a small city.
20. You still came back home to live with your parents after you graduate.
21. You teach Westerners swearwords in your Arabic.
22. Your parents drink 6 cups of tea a day.
23. You’ve had a shoe thrown at you by your mother.
24. Your grandparents think everything Americans do is haram (sinfull).
The above statements give you an idea of what it means to be a typical Sudanese. I emphasize typical so yes… not all Sudanese are like that.
SudaneseThinker
SudaneseThinker
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Hi Drima! I love this post - it made me laugh so much because I think this is what ANY Arab is like, not just a Sudanese! We have so much in common and we don’t even know it…
I’ll have to borrow this list some day, but of course link back to your blog. I must say thank you for stopping by my own blog, because that way, I got introducd to this! I’ve learned a lot reading your posts, and I’m going to go back to reading now. I have cared for so long about the Darfur issue, and am resigned to the fact that now, because celebrities have shown an appalled interest in the genocide occurring in Sudan, the rest of the world has decided to wake up. I wish it had happened sooner!
Thanks again, and I’ll be back! Oh, and if you don’t mind, I’d like to link to your blog from mine?
Hello Ramblin Hal. Thanks so much for dropping by.
I know it’s funny how much we have in common in terms of culture and heritage right? Yes you can defintely use this post and link me up. I will be very gratefull since I’m still new to blogging and getting to know many wonderfull people in the blogosphere including Jews! (who knew Jews were so nice huh hehe?) That’s why I’m hooked to blogs now. They break barriers.
I like reading your blog too. Infact there are many new blogs that I got introduced to recently and really started liking. I’m going to update my links section to include yours in it. For now just busy with exams and uni you know…
Jordanians are wonderfull people and I am glad to have a few of them as friends here in Malaysia.
PS: you are Jordanian right? lol =p
this is so true sudanese ppl are like that!!
so very true sudanese are exactly like that, especially the shoe thrown at you everyday thing !!!!!!! could use a few addons-mulah is eatin every single day!!! im sudanese too,
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