[Spotykach] Fwd: You know you're Eastern European when...

[olhas]

>Now I forwarding a bad smelled text which my cousen just send me 
>from New York (without really knowing with which topic of the 
>seminar I am busy now:-). After going throw it, I realize that 
>America also full of stereotypes concerning Eastern Europeans and 
>maybe even in more ugly way. Those cliches probably everywhere where 
>this new kind of culture coming across established one. Those 
>sentences can be written only by those who never give a question why 
>Eastern Eropeans in this way but not the other but present what 
>differ them from "an accepted" style. This is a good example how 
>Eastern European framed in one pot all togather based on common 
>soviets backgroud, natural way of living, communal values and 
>unmesured care of parents of their children without rationalistic 
>thinking with religious beleave in selfgiving to others as high 
>priority. Well, I can go through each point but then I feel like I 
>try improve myself but I don't want so cause I don't see anything 
>wrong with being in one way but not another without try be fit into 
>something else.

regards, Olga

>You know you're Eastern European when...
>
>1.You had to share a room until you were 21.
>
>2.Everything you eat is savored in garlic and onions.
>
>3.You are standing next to the two largest suitcases
>at the airport.
>
>4.You arrive one or two hours late to a party - and
>think its
>normal.
>
>5.All your children have nick names, which sound
>nowhere close to
>their real names.
>
>6.You talk for an hour at the front door when leaving
>someone's
>house.
>
>7.Your mom tells you you're too skinny even though
>your 30 pounds
>overweight. .
>
>8.Your house is full of medicine from your old country
>and it's
>probably all illegal here.
>
>9.You and your friends have ever been kicked out of a
>restaurant or recreational park for being too loud or
>rowdy.
>
>10.You dont know how to use a dishwasher b/c u are the
>dishwasher.
>
>11.You have a vinyl tablecloth on your kitchen table.
>
>12.You use grocery bags to hold garbage.
>
>13.Your dad ever butchered a pig or lamb.
>
>14.You don't use measuring cups when cooking.
>
>15.If you don't live at home, when your parents call,
>they ask if
>you've eaten, even if it's midnight.
>
>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 foreign calls.
>
>17. It's "normal" if your wedding has 600 people.
>
>18.Your 15 year old sister can out-drink any American
>guy.
>
>19.You drive a nicer car than your parents.
>
>20.Your dad carries around enough money to buy a car.
>
>21.You have all brand new appliances in your kitchen
>but your mom
>cooks in the basement with the stove from your old
>house.
>
>22.Your parents have gone on vacation ONCE and it was
>to your home country.
>
>23.You base your whole life on the fortune in your
>coffee cup
>
>24.Your parents still prefer to buy cassettes instead
>of CDs.
>
>25.You're actually nodding and laughing at most of
>these things
>
>26.You 're a proud Eastern European and pass this on
>to your
>European friends..
>
>27. your non-english speaking grandmother gives a
>shocked looked
>when you say 'pizza'
>
>28. you wear french connection and other designer
>clothing when
>going to work out
>
>29. you carry liquor back here from your country in
>plastic sprite bottles under tons of clothing in the
>suitcase
>
>30. You have 17 consonants and 2 vowels in your last name
>