nationalities

I used to believe when I was little that it was well known that after a certain period of time, the British would invade. I even had dreams about their military marching, millions of them, but all they did was march, nothing else happened. I don't know where the idea came from, probably something sarcastic my dad told me.

cdw_almosthero

I used to think all Italians worked in pizza restaurants.

Anon

I used to believe that mexican babies were born when a black person and a white person had a baby together. I don't know where I got that idea since I am half mexican and neither of my parents are black. Oh well. Heres to being a kid.

Jenn

I used to believe that everybody spoke English in the world

Anon

I used to think that all British people were related to the Queen and that they were able to visit Buckingham Palace and see her family anytime they wanted

American Girl

I used to believe that anyone who wasn't British (as I am) thought of themselves as foreigners!

"velveire"

I used to think all Chinese people were kung fu experts. Must have been from watching so many martial arts movies with my dad.

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I used to believe that those of Indian descent who had them were born with dots on their forehead.

Anon

I used to think the word barber was related to the word 'Berber', like Turks and North Africans being Semitic people, and Turkish guys being into male hairdressing.

Anon

I used to have a stuffed globe I used as a pillow when I was first learning to read. Phonetically sounding out the countries, I used to believe that Niger and Nigeria, were pronounced with a hard G, and proudly announced their names to my mother as Nigger and Niggeria. She VERY quickly corrected me.

Anon

I used to beleive that there was someone just like me, in some far off place like CHINA or somewhere, and they looked the same, and had the same name, and did exactly the same stuff as me, at the same time. I thought that one day I would go to far off China and meet myself.

Cookia

When people would ask me what was my background, I would tell them 1/2 German and 1/2 Brooklyn!

Randy

when i was little my daddy told me i was half indian... and i pulled out my arms looked down and my legs and asked him what part

bree <33

I used to believe that there was one of me in each country around the world, and if I was patient enough, I would eventually meet up with them. I couldn't wait to meet the French version of me, the Chinese me, the Mexican me...

Katie

One classmate called me a nazi once. Because of that, i believed that my german family members were nazis for a long time. They weren't.

Anon

I used to think that the little people used in population charts represented just one single person, and wondered how they could count every specific person living in every country.

Anon

I had beliefs about The Netherlands, even though I never had Dutch friends as a child. They stemmed from a traditional song that you might have sung yourself about a mouse wearing clogs in a windmill and from cartoons. I believed that all Dutch people wore clogs, lived in windmills, made cheese and grew tulips. I didn't think many of them had bikes nor horses and walked everywhere-It was flat so it didn't matter. I also thought when I was a bit older that hamsters came from Amsterdam and I imagined them around the streets (I knew that Dutch people didn't all live in windmills etc. by then :-). I thought they dropped the "h" to make the Amster- part sound a bit less like the cute critters. Oh and the age-old belief that all Egyptians “walked like an Egyptian” and still dressed as they did in the days of the Pharaohs. :)

Ocean-Sirius

I'm from Norway and when I was 16, I went to the USA for a year. On my first day of highschool, I had to introduce myself and told people that I was from Norway and someone actually asked me if we had ELECRICITY in Norway!

Fiona

When I was young I used to read a comic called The Dandy.

One strip was called the Jocks & The Geordies.

It was easy to see that the Jocks were Scots because they wore big Tam O' Shanters & liked to say stuff like "Jings" when they were surprised.

The Geordies all wore smart school uniforms & spoke plain English, so I assumed they were posh English kids & Geordie was a Scottish slang word for such a person.

My Dad was surprised when I started to use Geordie in this context & had to explain it actually meant someone from Newcastle, which is a fairly unposh place.

Richard Davies

I used to think Indian women had scabs on their foreheads, but it was bindi!

Emily