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Ways To Tell You Are Lao


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You know you're a Lao person if....

button.gif Your mother likes to wear 24 carat gold (pure gold) jewellery.

button.gif You ask your parents help on one problem and 2 hours later they're still lecturing.

button.gif You have a 40 lb. bag of rice in your pantry.

button.gif You have packages of noodles in your pantry.

button.gif Everyone thinks you're "Thai or Chinese" no matter what part of Laos your ancestors were from.

button.gif You've been to a buddhist temple.

button.gif At special occasions, monks or ordinary people tie a white yarn or string on your wrist for good luck.

button.gif Your parents enjoy comparing you to their friends' kids or other Lao people.

button.gif Your parents say, "Don't forget your heritage."

button.gif You've eaten inner parts of animals they don't even put in hot dogs.

button.gif You like to eat chicken feet.

button.gif Piles of shoes and thongs tend to make it hard to open the front, back and closet doors.

button.gif Everybody calls you by your nickname.

button.gif Your last name is really long.

button.gif Idiot people try to impress you with pathetic imitation Asian languages, like the ever-so-popular: ching chong woo bok chi, etc...

button.gif Your parents say leaving rice in your bowl is a sin.

button.gif Your parents hover over your tired, caffeine-drugged body at 12 midnight to say, "Back in Laos, we studied and worked harder."

button.gif Everyone thinks you're good at math.

button.gif Your parents insist you marry within your race.

button.gif Your parents have never kissed you.

button.gif Your parents have never kissed each other.

button.gif Your parents have never hugged you.

button.gif Your parents have never hugged each other.

button.gif You learned about the birds and the bees from someone other than your parents.

button.gif "You want a computer! When I was your age, I didn't even have shoes!!"

button.gif You have to call just about all your parents friends "Aunty and Uncle."

button.gif You will most likely be taller than your parents.

button.gif You get nothing if you do well in school, but get in big trouble if you don't.

button.gif When going inside other peoples' houses, you always have to take your shoes off.

button.gif Your dad still pulls his socks up to his knees.

button.gif Your family always cheers for the Asian athlete on TV (i.e., Paradorn Srichaphan).

button.gif The furniture in your house never matches the wallpaper, the carpet, the decorations or any of the rest of the furniture.

button.gif You own a rice cooker or two.

button.gif You buy soy sauce, fish sauce and chilli sauce by the gallon.

button.gif Your parents buy you clothes and shoes many sizes too big so you can "grow into it" and wear it for years to come.

button.gif You have a statue or picture of Buddha in your house.

button.gif You take showers at night.

button.gif You put your hands together (vai position) when you meet an elder to show your respect.

button.gif Your parents plant vegetables everywhere in the backyard.

button.gif Your parents has a chopping board made from a tree trunk.

button.gif Your parents tell you that Thai people talk sweet (paak vaan).

button.gif At parties/weddings/gatherings, you will see a group of men and women playing cards.

button.gif You like mangoes and coconut juice.

button.gif You know what "por gun mai" means.

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Hello
How are you
Goodbye
See you next time
Thank you
Help
Excuse me or Sorry
Laos
Vientiane
Pakse
Countryside
Girl
Boy
Westerner
Please
Yes
No
Sticky rice
White rice
Yellow noodle
Rice noodle
Meet salad
Bamboo shoot soup
I understand
I don't understand
Do you understand
How much is this
Delicious
        Sabaidee
Jaow sabaidee bor
La gone
Phor gun mai
Khorp jai
Soy
Khor taught
Meuang Lao
Vieng Jun
Buck Seah
Ban nork
Poo nying
Poo sai
Falung
Gahloona
Er, jaow, doy, man leow
Bor
Kaow neow
Kaow jaow
Mee
Fur
Laap seen
Ghang nor mai
Khoy kaow jai
Khoy bor kaow jai
Jaow kaow jai bor
Unee tor dai
Saap lai


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Anonymous

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You know you are Lao when you can read and type Lao

ອ່ານ ແລະ ພິມພາສາລາວໄດ້ biggrin

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Anonymous

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Im am not LAOS I am LAO but my family is from LAOS though.

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Anonymous

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I'm lao but my family or me not do all of those things
Well it has something in their that we used to do, so I'm Lao :) but maybe not a real Lao yet



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