You know you're West Indian if
* you've never seen your parents kiss or do anything remotely romantic! (esp your Grand parents)
* You have something that represents your country hanging
from your rear view mirror
* YOU KNOW WHAT IT IS LIKE TO BE 'SENT FOR THE BELT'
* When you get licks, its to a riddim example: ..
didnt... (insert lick)... i....(insert lick)... ...tell.....(insert lick)...you.......(insert lick)... not......(insert
lick)...to...... (insert lick)...do....(insert lick)...that!...(insert X amount of licks)
* When you go to someone's house late in the evening you tell the host 'Good Night'
* YOU WALK WITH YOUR OWN PEPPER SAUCE!!
* When you were little and you got licks and start to cry
your Mum would ask, ' Yuh want something to cry fah?'
* SORREL IS A CHRISTMAS DRINK, NOT EGGNOG
* WHEN YOU REACH HOME YOU CHANGE INTO HOUSE CLOTHES
* you bring home left over food from any function and any
party
* WHEN YOU GET 98 OUT OF 100 ON A TEST.. YUH PARENTS ASK
YOU 'WHAT DE RASS HAPPEN TO THE OTHER 2 MARKS??'
* Someone in your family is a mechanic
* You show disapproval (well any emotion) by sucking your teeth
* You have a thyme (or mint) bush growing somewhere in
your yard.
* 'SOON COME' IS A FIGURE OF SPEECH
* You hate to throw away empty containers as they might
come in handy for pepper sauce or 'green seasonings'.
* You call stupid people ningcome poop, dotish,
tootoombey, or chupidee or MudduhAss
* You tried hiding from licks
* you know that blue soap makes white clothes whiter.
* You say words like Heg (instead of Egg); Hingland
(instead of England).(mostly Jamaicans)
* you have at least one relative living in Canada or the US
* You know the difference between Wine, Whine and WINE!!!
* You can call your fellow country man by an ethnic name
fondly and it would be okay. eg: darkie, reds, dougs, chinee-
man, creole, red-man, white-boy
* you can indentify someone as coollie in an instant
* you can Insert blank here... 'Who don't hear ________
feel!!'
* You have been Beaten with an extension cord, a nintendo or tv cable, hanger or your mom's house slippers or the POT SPOON and when it break you get beat for breaking it
* THERE IS ALWAYS VASELINE IN THE HOUSE
* everybody is always expecting something when u go back
to the west indies.
* everybody is expecting something when u come back from
the west indies.
WEST INDIAN
BE PROUD
* you've never seen your parents kiss or do anything remotely romantic! (esp your Grand parents)
* You have something that represents your country hanging
from your rear view mirror
* YOU KNOW WHAT IT IS LIKE TO BE 'SENT FOR THE BELT'
* When you get licks, its to a riddim example: ..
didnt... (insert lick)... i....(insert lick)... ...tell.....(insert lick)...you.......(insert lick)... not......(insert
lick)...to...... (insert lick)...do....(insert lick)...that!...(insert X amount of licks)
* When you go to someone's house late in the evening you tell the host 'Good Night'
* YOU WALK WITH YOUR OWN PEPPER SAUCE!!
* When you were little and you got licks and start to cry
your Mum would ask, ' Yuh want something to cry fah?'
* SORREL IS A CHRISTMAS DRINK, NOT EGGNOG
* WHEN YOU REACH HOME YOU CHANGE INTO HOUSE CLOTHES
* you bring home left over food from any function and any
party
* WHEN YOU GET 98 OUT OF 100 ON A TEST.. YUH PARENTS ASK
YOU 'WHAT DE RASS HAPPEN TO THE OTHER 2 MARKS??'
* Someone in your family is a mechanic
* You show disapproval (well any emotion) by sucking your teeth
* You have a thyme (or mint) bush growing somewhere in
your yard.
* 'SOON COME' IS A FIGURE OF SPEECH
* You hate to throw away empty containers as they might
come in handy for pepper sauce or 'green seasonings'.
* You call stupid people ningcome poop, dotish,
tootoombey, or chupidee or MudduhAss
* You tried hiding from licks
* you know that blue soap makes white clothes whiter.
* You say words like Heg (instead of Egg); Hingland
(instead of England).(mostly Jamaicans)
* you have at least one relative living in Canada or the US
* You know the difference between Wine, Whine and WINE!!!
* You can call your fellow country man by an ethnic name
fondly and it would be okay. eg: darkie, reds, dougs, chinee-
man, creole, red-man, white-boy
* you can indentify someone as coollie in an instant
* you can Insert blank here... 'Who don't hear ________
feel!!'
* You have been Beaten with an extension cord, a nintendo or tv cable, hanger or your mom's house slippers or the POT SPOON and when it break you get beat for breaking it
* THERE IS ALWAYS VASELINE IN THE HOUSE
* everybody is always expecting something when u go back
to the west indies.
* everybody is expecting something when u come back from
the west indies.
WEST INDIAN
BE PROUD
lawd I'd rather find de belt
You know sorta like those from North America? I think they call them North Americans.The West Indies are also known as the Caribbean.