You Know you are Sri Lankan when....

1. You use banana leaves instead of plates, to eat rice and curry.

2. You mark any special occasion by boiling milk until it spills all over your stove..

3. You get it on to baila music.

4. You know Buddhist chants, Hindu chants and the Islamic call to prayer..by heart

5. You refer to friends by calling them "Machan" instead of "dude"

6. You have encountered; been pursued; or bitten by a snake.

7. You find that white people will choose death over trying to pronounce your name.
8. You haggle at the dollar store cuz you know that chocolate bar just cost you a 100 rupees.

9. You eat string hoppers ,coconut milk and a three- course curry meal for

breakfast.

10.When Arrack is better then any french champagne.

11. You use Siddahelpe to solve your medical problems.

12. You tell your parents you got 98%, and they ask you what happened to the other two percent.

13. You have a Singer sewing machine at home.

14 You call an older person you've never met before uncle or aunty

15.Your relatives alone could populate a small city.

16.EVERYONE is a family friend.

17.You went to a university as far away from home as possible and you still came back home to live with your parents after you finish.

18.You use chilli sauce instead of tomato ketchup.

19.You parents always say "on the light" instead of "turn
the light on".

20.When "Aney".. or "Aiiyooo" or "Alllaaahhh" is a standard word in everyday conversation

21.You're walking out of customs with your trolley at the airport and you see all twenty-five members of your family who have come to pick you up.

22.Your parents drink 3 cups of tea a day.

23.When the car allows 7 people yet you seem to fit 20 in there..!!

24.Your parents compare you to all of their friends' kids.

25.When cursing the Government is the highlight of every dinner conversation

26.No one ever seems to call ahead of time to say they are coming over for a visit.

27. Your parents worry what other people will think if you're not going to be a doctor/engineer.

28.Your parents worry what other people will think when your seen out in public with boys or if your "carrying on with someone"

29.Your parents worry what other people will say about you having a girlfriend/boyfriend or better yet "an affair"

30.At a function or party your parents or you say their leaving but they take another hour saying goodbye or talking for longer....

31. when u tell ppl that ur from sri lanka and they say "oh the country that
got hit by the tsunami" (apparently the tsunami finally put us on the map!)

32. whenever something sad happens to anyone or any animal for that matter u automatically say "aney pouuuuuu..."

33. When your parents talk shit about your american friends in sinhalese/tamil while standing right next to them.

34. When something gross happens or talking about anything that is disgusting,bad,etc. you say "Chi Chi Chi...".

35.When you see guys in nugegoda walkin comfortably on the street holding hands and wearing flourescent shirts and yellow BATA slip ons..n hey! no one looks at them twice!!

36. You salt and pepper your mangos, and every other fruit you eat

37. When on your 18th birthday, you find out that you are pre- arranged to marry a person that you have never seen or heard-of before .

38. When your 17-year old third-cousin's wedding reception is bigger and more grand than the Kandy perahara.

39. Your parents leave folded plastic bags from expensive stores under their mattress so that they can be reaused to make ghetto presents look really expensive.

40. Your Parents aren't afraid to chase you down the street and slap you if you talk back...