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YOU ARE A FILIPINO, IF YOU

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• Turn around when you hear, “Psst”
• Point a direction with your lips
• Raise eyebrows as a form of greeting
• Tweak someone with your big toe and index toe
• “Wrap”sodize party food to take home
• Open/close doors with your foot
• Make the sign of the cross whenever you pass by a church or cemetery
• Have cans of Spam, corned beef, and Ligo sardines in your pantry
• Have a rice cooker
• Have bottles of soy sauce, oyster sauce, and patis (fish sauce) in your cupboard
• Believe in aswang, tiktik, and kapre (mythological creatures)
• Mix up “he” and “she”; “his” and “her”
• Fill “up” a form
• Pronounce “fact” as “fuck”
• Fry fish to a crisp
• Like “puto” as something edible and not a bad word
• Eat “balut” (boiled fertilized duck egg)

Do you have anything to add to the list?