• You can't answer the question, "Where are you from?” 
• You flew before you could walk.
• You have a passport, but no 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.
• You speak with authority on the quality of airline travel.
• National Geographic (OR THE TRAVEL CHANNEL) makes you homesick.
• You read the international section before the comics.
• You live at school, work in the tropics, and go home for vacation.
• You don't know where home is.
• You sort your friends by continent.
• Someone brings up the name of a team, and you get the sport wrong.
• Your memories of an 'away' game include another country.
• You know there is no such thing as an international language.
• Your second major is in a foreign language you already speak.
• You realize it really is a small world, after all.
• You watch a movie set in a foreign country, and you know what the nationals are really saying into the camera.
• Rain on a tile patio --or a corrugated metal roof--is one of the most wonderful sounds in the world.
• You haggle with the checkout clerk for a lower price.
• Your wardrobe can only handle two seasons: wet and dry.
• Your high school memories include those days that school was cancelled due to tear gas or riots, or demonstrations, those "corrupted countries problems... (REMEMBER THOSE BOMB THREATS????)
• 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 go to Pizza Hut or Wendy's and you wonder why there's no chili sauce.
• You know the geography of the rest of the world, but you don't know the geography of your own country.
• You have best friends in 5 different countries.
• You're spoilt. You know it. You're VERY spoilt.

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