1. You understand a lot of Tagalog (etc.), but can hardly speak it.
2. You immediately know that Tagalog (etc.) is being spoken, but you don't understand any of it.
3. You make fun of and really know how to imitate your parents' and grandparents' filipino accents.
4. As a child, you were totally embarrassed to eat spaghetti with sliced hot dogs in it. Now, there is absolutely no way you will eat spaghetti without the hot dogs. In fact, you suggest to your non-Filipino friends that hot dogs make spaghetti taste better.
5. You really enjoy eating Pizza with Rice on the same plate.
6. As a child, you hated being Filipino, but, now, you wear Pinoy Pride T-shirts.
7. You still wear Tsinelas (slippers).
8. You still take off your shoes when entering a house.
9. (Southern California) You've never lived in Baldwin Park, Carson, Cerritos, the crappy part of L.A., West Covina, Walnut or Diamond Bar. (Northern California) You've never lived in Union City. Or you live there now after finding out that Filipinos are living there now.
10. You don't steal things (e.g., towels, soaps, tissues, cups) from hotel rooms like your parents and grandparents did. And when you do take things, you deny that the action is not a Filipino trait.
11. You don't care if a T-shirt was made in the Philippines or the USA. As long as it has a designer label on it, you'll wear it.
12. You like shopping in small Filipino supermarkets, but you can't stand the way it smells in there.
13. As a child, you cursed your mom for feeding you Sinigang and Adobo all the time, instead of eating at McDonald's. Now, it's a special treat when your mom cooks Sinigang or Adobo.
14. You know how to cook at least one Filipino dish.... Well, you know at least where a Filipino restaurant is located to buy at least one Filipino dish.
15. You forgot or never learned how to pronounce the name of the one of the Filipino foods that you like to eat. You just like to eat it whatever it is called.
16. You need your parents or someone else to do the live "closed captioning" translation to tell you whatever everyone else is saying in Tagalog when you go to Filipino parties.
17. When you go to Filipino parties, you can only watch people talk back and forth in Tagalog like watching a ping-pong game because you don't understand Tagalog.
18. You know what fried Tuyo smells like.
19. Eating Diniguan ("chocolate meat" dish) still grosses you out -OR- you really enjoy eating Diniguan while telling your non-filipino friends what it is really made out of.
20. You still exhibit "tightwad" traits like buying a small soda (instead of medium or large which costs 20 cents more) when it's all you can drink.
21. You'd rather wash dishes with your hands than use your dishwasher because you mother ingrained in your head that the dishwater wastes more water.
22. You still like eating Lumpia and Pancit.
23. You usually say PAAN-set (American pronunciation), but when you are really feeling filipino, you do correctly say Pancit because you know that you have to put the acccent on the second syllable when talking or doing the Filipino accent.
24. You still like Lechon but the pig's head still freaks you out.
25. You still find Balut disgusting.
26. You think you're cool when you go back to the Philippines because you don't speak with an accent, your skin is fairer than the natives', and you have cool clothes - not hand-me-downs from relatives in the States.
27. Your non-filipino white friends think you look cool because your skin has a better "tan" than theirs.
28. You ask your mom or your grandmother if she pinched your nose when you were an infant baby and they say "YES" while telling you they wanted to make your nose more pointed.
29. You think all Filipino movies and Filipino TV shows on The Filipino Channel on cable are funny, even when the movie or the TV show is a drama.
30. You actually believe that you could become a Filipino movie star back in the Philippines because you THINK you're better looking than the Filipinos back home.
31. You can't stand to look at pictures of you as a young child because you looked like a FOB. (Hey, you are a FOB!)
32. You like to make FOB jokes.
33. You laugh at the Fresh-Off-the-Boat (FOB) jokes even though you are really Fresh-Off-the-Plane (FOP).
34. Sometimes you don't understand the FOB jokes because you actually missed the boat by being born here in the United States.
35. You're disappointed at American parties where the only food to eat are small finger-type foods with names you can't pronounce (how about those vegetable sticks? Yuk!) and later after the party you complain how there was no food at the party. You're even more disappointed when there was meat being served but no rice!
36. You eat Kentucky Fried Chicken with rice. Screw the biscuits!
37. You still call your grandparents Lolo and Lola.
38. You dare not bring Balikbayan boxes with you when traveling back home! One suitcase will do just fine.
39. Sometimes your Filipino accent comes out accidentally and you get embarrassed about it.
40. Sometimes you purposefully speak with a Filipino accent even though you were born in the United States and don't really know how to speak Tagalog.
41. Your non-Filipino friends and coworkers ask you if you've ever eaten dog.... You say "NO." But then you tell them what "chocolate meat" is really made of and then you say "YES" that you love eating "chocolate meat."
42. You think that President Marcos is still the Philippine president. Do you know who the current president is?
43. You still eat Pandesal with butter, Vienna sausage, or eggs.
44. Your friends and coworkers don't call you by your Filipino nickname (e.g., Popoy, Bong, Jhun Jhun, etc.), although your family members and relatives still do.
45. Your parents' house still have the furniture you grew up with.
46. Although there are now creative ways to eat Spam, you still like it the classic Filipino way - fried spam with rice and ketchup. Same with corned beef except without the ketchup.

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