- You can't answer the question: "Where are you from?"
- You speak two (or more) languages but can't spell in either.
- You flew before you could walk.
- You have a passport, but not a driver's license.
- You watch National Geographic specials and recognize someone.
- You run into someone you know at every airport.
- You have a time zone map next to your telephone.
- Your life story uses the phrase "Then we went to..." five times (or six, or seven, or...)
- You speak_with_authority on the quality of airline travel.
- National Geographic and the Travel Channel make you homesick.
- You read the international section of the newspaper before the comics.
- You live at school, work in the tropics, and go home for vacation.
- You sort your friends by continent.
- You know that there is no such thinng as an international language.
- Your second major is a foreign language you already speak.
- You realize it really is a small world, after all.
- You feel that multiple passports would be appropriate.
- You watch a movie that takes place in a foreign country, and you know what the nationals are really saying.
- You haggle with the checkout clerk for a lower price.
- Your high school memories include those days that school was cancelled due to tear gas, riots, demonstrations, or bomb threats.
- You go to Taco Bell and have to put five packets of hot sauce on your taco.
- You have a name in at least two different languages, and it's not the same one.
- You think VISA is a document stamped in your passport, and not a plastic card you carry in your wallet.
- You automatically take off your shoes as soon as you get home.
- Your dorm room/apartment/living room looks a little like a museum with all the "exotic" things you have around.
- You won't eat Uncle Ben's rice because it doesn't stick together.
- Half of your phone calls are unintelligible to those around you.
- You know the geography of the rest of the world, but you dont' know the geography of your own country.
* Adapted from: http://www.beginningwithi.com/aboutme/youreatck.html
