You know you're some type of Asian when...

1) People at some point in your life asked why you don't open your eyes wider... or if your eyes were even open.

2) You remember being asked in elementary school by some other kid if you were Chinese/Japanese/Korean (multiple times) and they were never right

3) You've been asked, completely randomly, if you know martial arts

4) There are chopsticks in your utensil drawer

5) There is a rice cooker with some form of oriental writing on it in your kitchen

6) You have Ramen in the pantry/cupboard. And you know how to say the word Ramen. And it's not the crappy American Ramen either, it's the good stuff that actually comes out of Asia. And is spicy.

7) You were eating Pocky and the Chocolate-filled koala bears WAAAAAAY before other people even knew they existed.

8) You remember as a little kid correcting one or both of your parents on how to say or spell a simple English word

9) You played, or tried to learn at one point how to play, the piano or violin

10) You play golf -and if you don't play golf, you play tennis - and if you don't play tennis, you run cross country -and if you're not in a sport, you are really, really good at art

11) You excel at math- and if you don't, you kick ass in all your other classes

12) You’ve always been heavily pressured to do well in school. Really, really pressured. World will end if you don't do well.

13) It's all about not disappointing your parents- so you lie about everything, from grades to your boy/girlfriend

14) Growing up, jobs you "wanted" to have included Doctor, accountant, Engineer, or taking after your dad

15) Your mom can eat jalapenos like potato chips

16) You laugh at everything Dat Phan says not only because he's funny: but because all he says is true.

17) You're into Anime

18) If you're not into Anime, you view people who are roughly how black people view wiggers

19) Using almost any sort of handheld technology comes to you in seconds, without the instructions

20) You have an abnormal amount of technology in your house

21) You were bitter about your height in elementary school- and maybe still are

22) You and your entire family have dark hair and eyes – yet your mom/aunt/girl cousin has at some point dyed their hair really, really light, or streaked it with really strong blonde/red

23) You look strangely excellent in shades of red, black and gold

24) Half your family is located "far East"

25) You spotted the cultural mistakes in Mulan

26) You’ve joked about being a ninja- and been taken seriously

27) Same goes for having family in the Yakuza

28) Most of the car accidents you’ve ever been in were either your fault, or the fault of the driver of your vehicle

29) Some part of your house or porch has been used for drying vegetables/greens on racks for storing and using later

30) You can look at the “made in _____” sticker on something and at least 50% of the time see your birth country

31) Your mom/aunt/older female relative often mixes several brands/styles of clothing that have the brand name displayed obviously on them

32) When you were little, your mom carried around a wet wash cloth during the summer

33) You own a DDR pad- and if you don’t, you always kick your friends’ butts when you play against them. Or you completely suck (there isn’t a whole lot of in between : P )

34) You have a two part middle name that either has too many consonants or vowels in it- and maybe a dash

35) There are several large ceramic/metal jars or bowls big enough to bath a baby in in your pantry- used for food

36) You know what kimchi is

37) You have a jar of it in your fridge at this moment

38) One of your relatives has a table that requires you to sit on the floor to comfortably eat off of it

39) You’ve had some form of seafood 3 times in the past 2 weeks

40) You regularly eat food that makes you sweat, cry, and that burns- and enjoy it.

41) You eat food with animal parts in it that you can't identify just by looking at

42) The idea of eating something that is red, bubbling (in a black, cauldron-like pot) and has tentacles, roots and mushrooms in it sounds delicious

43) There are (name of your ethnicity) newspapers/magzines/CDs/DVDs/Videos laying around the house because of your parents

44) When you go to a restaurant where they serve just (name of your ethnicity) foods, your mom/dad orders in the actual language, then strikes up conversation with the waiter

45) You know how many syllables go into each line of a Haiku

46) You have eaten fish (or any other type of food animal) prepared so that it still looks completely like that animal- something most people would find disturbing

47) "Oriental is Rug! Oriental is Carpet! Oriental is FOOD! I am ASIAN!" <- you laughed your butt off at Carlos Mencia

48) You're nodding and laughing at too many of these comments

49) No matter how old you get, you still wince a little when you see your mom with a slipper in her hand.

50) There's been days where you've had to force the door to get in because of the number of shoes laying aroud the entrance to your house.

51) You acknowledge that most Asian horror movies might as well have no plot whatsoever and for the most part have horrible special effects, yet you watch them anyway.
(This list was made up of a group of comments I've grown up with being half Korean, as well as contributions for other asians I've known- if you think of anything, note me and I'll add it (given that it's appropriate : P )

P.S. If you like, post in a wall-comment how many of these apply to you : D
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You know you're some type of Asian when...

1) People at some point in your life asked why you don't open your eyes wider... or if your eyes were even open.

2) You remember being asked in elementary school by some other kid if you were Chinese/Japanese/Korean (multiple times) and they were never right

3) You've been asked, completely randomly, if you know martial arts

4) There are chopsticks in your utensil drawer

5) There is a rice cooker with some form of oriental writing on it in your... (read more)