1.
People who mistake you for being Mexican:
2.
You'll use "Ya" for all forms of communication:
3.
These homemade alfajores that are ridiculously good:
5.
...that totally dominated...
7.
You can't get enough of Inca Kola:
9.
Or this beverage that's better than Kool-Aid:
10.
You don't need to go to the hospital because you had this:
11.
You'll have unlimited Panetón throughout the holiday season:
12.
Before there was McDonald's, you'd go to Bembos:
13.
You cannot resist a hot plate of salchipapa:
14.
Or some ceviche that's so good it'll make you cry:
15.
You can always smell your mom cooking lomo saltado from a mile away:
16.
Absolutely NO ONE cooks like your Peruvian mom:
17.
Pataclaun knew how to rock red noses:
18.
You can't get this voice out of your head:
19.
And your mom couldn't get enough of la señorita Laura because she always knew how to solve people's marital problems:
20.
You can hear your mom screaming at you through text:
21.
You played with el trompo before there was a Wii:
22.
And finally, when you meet a fellow Peruvian and you instantly become homies for life.
23.
Because there's nothing better in this life than being Peruvian: