1. Our friends were always begging to come to our house for dinner.
2. And while we're on the topic of rice, we don't understand why anyone would eat it plain.
3. Instead of soggy sandwiches, we took the leftovers of this to school.
4. In tupperware, obviously. Because our parents stored everything in tupperware.
5. We actually supported Iran in the last World Cup.
6. We were nerds at school for a reason.
7. And our career paths were defined from birth.
8. We wasted years wishing we were old enough to get a nose job.
9. But if your brow game isn't strong, we judge you.
10. We're not that bothered about NYE.
11. In our heads, our trips to the Motherland looked like this.
12. But there was no better place to go for your summer holiday anyway.
13. And we secretly enjoyed those trips to our ancestral villages.
14. We knew all minor acts of teen rebellion would be met with over-reaction.
15. Except smoking shisha. Regular smoking = no. Smoking shisha = totally fine.
16. Still, we get mad when our white British friends hog the shisha.
17. Our homes have been taken over by Persian carpets.
18. We find drinking tea with milk weird.
19. We become emotionally invested in British-Iranian famous people.
20. There's no point asking us to be anywhere on time.
21. Every phone conversation with a relative in Iran goes like this:
22. We were taught to reject conventional medicine.
23. We find this question tedious.
24. We have so many family members scattered all over the world, it's hard to keep track.
25. And we know we won't go grey as we age.
26. But above all, we're unbelivably proud of our British-Iranian heritage.
