You may have seen this before, and maybe it's only funny to me! But I found "10 way to know you are Latina". I bolded my favs, and added some personal comments in purple:
- If you can't fight the urge to clap on a plane that has just landed! (Hilarious! But true.)
- If your boyfriend plucks, waxes or in any other way grooms his eyebrows even more than you do, then you are most likely a Latina...dating a Latino! (No! Sorry, the Pupu is a Caribbean man! Hey Mon!!).
- If even though you're fluent in English, you still refer to going grocery shopping as a compra.
- If you have ever committed the cardinal sin and fashion faux pas of wearing socks with sandals! (This one doesn't apply to me, but does to my Abuelito).
- If something immensely sad or something immensely adorable both elicit the exact same response of "Hay Bendito!".
- If your grandmother's chancletas seemed to have some mystical boomerang powers, you know, she threw it at you and somehow it was magically back in her hand before you could even look up from your hiding place, then you are definitely Latina!
- If Vick's VaporRub was pronounced Bibaporú and used by everyone in your family to cure anything from burns to acne to La Gripa to infertility. (LOVE THIS! It's the Latino cure-all).
- If you have ever sat down on a couch and then immediately fallen off because of the slippery smooth surface created by the plastic covering the entire living room set...Latina all the way baby! (Thank God Louise NEVER adopted this trait! She's way too stylish for that!).
- If you grew up with a mother and/or grandmother who made you eat a ton of their food to prove how much you loved them, and then called you gordita five minutes later while pinching your chichos! (I know it TOO well!)
- If you are completely fed up with being called, fiery, spicy, caliente or any other adjective that could also describe a chili pepper, you are absolutely, positively, undeniably Latina. (Not "fed up", but it is getting old. At least they are good things to be!).
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