- you have yama (sinitus)
- you do the head wobble thing
- you start sentences with "We Tibetans..."
- you start sentences with "Those Injees..."
- you speak Tibetan to Indians and Hindi to Tibetans
- you don't know the word in Tibetan you say it in Hindi
- you say "shit" (in English) every time you drop something
- you don't know the name of any vegetables in Tibetan but you do in Hindi or Chinese
- you'd actually prefer to have butter tea
- prefer to tell people phone numbers in Chinese or English rather than Tibetan
- you point with your lips
- you think this post is funny because it is true
Monday, January 05, 2009
You are a Westerner who has been living in a Tibetan community in India too long if:
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