Mark which things you have done, then calculate your score by counting the number of questions you marked. This test is out of 100 questions which means that the number you get as your score is also your percentage. Re-post as “I am __% filipino.”
You know you’re Filipino or Filipina when…
[x] You answer to “Pssst!”
[x] You point with your lips.
[x] You have relatives whose nicknames consist of repeated syllables like Ling-Ling, Bong-Bong, or Che-Che.
[ ] You have uncles and aunts named boy, girlie or baby.
[ ] In your dining room there’s a picture of “Last Supper”
[ ] The furniture in your house is wrapped in plastic or covered in blankets.
[x] You use shopping bags as garbage bags.
[x] You keep a tabo in your bathroom.
[ ] You can’t resist buying items on sale even if you don’t need them.
[x] You eat with your hands or you cut your meat with a spoon and fork.
Total so far: 6/10
[x] You know a meal isn’t a meal unless there’s rice.
[x] There’s usually Spam, Vienna sausage and corned beef in your pantry.
[x] You eat or have eaten fried spam and eggs with rice for breakfast.
[ ] Whenever friends come over, they ask for “meat rolls” and you know they mean lumpia.
[ ] You greet or used to greet your elders by touching their hands to your forehead.
[x] You always kiss your relatives on the cheek whenever you enter or leave the room.
[ ] Your relatives sing karaoke when they come over.
[ ] A party isn’t a party unless there’s line dancing.
[x] You don’t get grossed out by balut.
[x] Your mom puts hot dogs in the spaghetti sauce.
Total so far: 12/20
[x] A family member taught you to gargle with warm salt and ginger water when you have a sore throat.
[ ] You always take your shoes off when you enter a house.
[x] You know what the “chocolate sauce” in dinuguan is actually made of
[x] You “open” and “close” the lights.
[x] You know what it means to be on Filipino Time.
[ ] Your second piece of luggage is a balikbayan box.
[x] You’ve mastered the art of packing a suitcase to double capacity.
[x] Goldilocks is more than a fairy tale character to you.
Total so far: 18/30
[ ] Your Dad is/was in the Navy or your mom is a nurse, or in many cases both.
[ ] You leave a party with more food than you came with.
[ ] You’re seen with a girl who’s not Filipino and she’s automatically your boyfriend and everyone knows about it.
[x] You have Philippines furniture in your house
[x] Your mom or dad came from a family with at least 5 children
[x] Your parents over exaggerate the time (ex:” hoy gising na ! its almost 12 o clock,” when it is really 11:15am.)
[ ] You, your parents or relatives pronounce “f’s” as “p’s” and “v’s” as “b’s”
[x] Anyone whose name your elders can’t recall in conversation is referred to as “si ano”.
[x] Your mom tells you to wear your “chinelas” when you go outside.
Total so far: 23/40
[x] You ask your mom what your “ulam” is when she’s cooking.
[x] Your mom likes oriental furniture.
[x] You can speak one or more: tagalog, ilocano, kapangpangan or cebuano.
[x] You can understand either: tagalog, ilocano, kapangpangan or cebuano
[x] You always have sardines in your pantry.
[ ] You’ve eaten the bird of the balut at least once.
[ ] You know the “Otso-otso”.
[ ] If you’re not the youngest in the family, you look like your mom.
[ ] You like Kare-Kare.
[x] Church is a must on Sundays.
Total so far: 29/50
[x] The first thing you offer your guests is food.
[ ] You like the “Black Eyed Peas” because one of the guys is Filipino.
[ ] Your mom tells you that its bad luck to sleep with your hair wet.
[x] You own a “walis”
[x] You like ALL of the following: Sinigang, Nilaga, Tilapia, Dinuguan, Pansit, Lumpia…etc..
[x] Mango is a dessert.
[x] You get excited when you see a Filipino on an American/Aussie channel.
[ ] If you’re living abroad, you have family in the Philippines that expect you to bring pasalubong that’s fancier than anything you even own yourself.
[x] You know that the “white” version of “come here” is palm-up, fingers waving toward the body, but the pinoy version is palm-down, fingers moving toward body in sort of shoveling motion.
Total so far: 35/60
[ ] You nod backwards to say yes.
[x] You know that Adidas is more than just an athletic company
[x] You know that “dat white one” means a CLEAR object and NOT white at all.
[ ] As a child you watched filipino movies with your parents.
[x] You eat lots of things with a bit of Patis
[x] When attended church when you were younger, your parents played dress up with you and made you wear fancy outfits.
Total so far: 39/70
[x] Your mom or lola cut your hair at least once .
[x] You know the songs, Nanay, tayay gusto ko kumain, Ate, kuya…or Sampo mga daliri, Kamay at paa… etc.
[x] Your as tall as a 12 year old.
[x] You have A LOT of cousins.
[ ] You have a house blessing gathering when you move.
[ ] You know the boom tarat tarat dance.
[ ] Your mom asks you to pass something that’s across the room, she doesn’t point with her finger or tells you what she wants, she point with her lips and says: yuon…hinde, bandadoon, a yan!
[ ] As a child when you were growing up, your mother use to wash your pwett with a tabo and till this day you still use one now.
[ ] Around Christmas time you and your cousin’s always got the same thing but in a different color.
Total so far: 43/80
[ ] You own a towel with your name on it.
[ ] You have a Karaoke Machine and often are force to sing with your mother.
[x] Your familiar with the plastic balloon, because you had to use a small hard plastic straw to blow it up, that had a toxic smell.
[ ] You use baby powder or baby oil.
[ ] You have a flat or round nose, not pointy.
[ ] Your mom dyes her hair to hide her white hairs.
[x] When your parents call you via phone they don’t say hi, they immediately ask you “Na san ka na?”
[ ] You collect everything and anything…not throwing anything anyway…sending them back home
[x] When your introduce to another elder Filipino, they are automatically your tita or tito.
[x] Your birthday cards all end with God Bless.
Total so far: 47/90
[ ] When you text, you don’t the full word but broken down… a word could have 5-10 letters and you some how manage to just text it in 2-3 letters…
[ ] Your parents always wanted you to become a doctor or something that gets a lot of money.
[x] Philippines is your favorite country and you have a flag somewhere in your house.
[x] You think that the national anthem of the Philippines sounds way happier then others.
[x] You’re proud to be a Filipino or Filipina!
[x] You’re mom always spends on others and never herself.
[x] You’re mother or aunt is weight conscious and isn’t afraid to tell you when you gained weight.
[x] You’re dad gives the most.
[x] Family is the most important thing to you.
IN TOTAL: 54/100
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