Autobiography of the cab driver...
by: Rebecca McClarahan
"They say if you can survive the summer in the heat, your a true native"
this quote is talking about how people in the past could not afford air conditioning or fans and they had no choice but to stay in the heat. There was nothing else that they could do but suffer through the heat. No matter how hot it got they had to stay there because they didnt have the choice to leave and go somewhere cool.

They are saying that if you were one of them who had to live there and did not really have a choice you can live in the heat today. Most of the people in the world today can not survive very well in this heat because they are so used to being pampered by cold air. They are saying that you can tell that those people were not true natives because they do not try, they would rather spend money on being cool then try to live in the heat the way the natives did.

This quote is also saying that it was about 100 degrees outside and just by being out there watching people you can tell who belongs there and who doesnt. The people that do not care how hot it is belongs there and were from there. The people that stay inside when its that hot out, you can tell are not from there because they can not deal with it the way the natives did.