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

Randy

I am Canadian, and when I was small, we went to visit my aunt's family in America for Christmas. My aunt had married into a Jewish family, and my older brother told me that her family did not usually celebrate Christmas, but they would this year just because we were coming. I knew nothing about Judaism, so I assumed, and believed for several years, that Americans (the only differnce I understood being our nationality) did not celebrate Christmas.

Anon

I used to think all Icelandic people looked like Bjork.

Katya

when i was 6 or 7 i lived in scotland and we were just doing some work in school on the vikings and how they had invaded england, when my mum told us we were moving to england. i remember crying hysterically because i truly believed that people in england still lived in straw huts like the vikings did. it took my mum several weeks to reassure me that we would be living in a brick built house with a proper roof

beanie shona

i used to believe that when chinese people cried their tears went into their ears

Mari

I believed that, because I spoke English, I was English.
(I'm Asian.)

Yubi

i used to believe Hungarian 're always hungry .that 's why they callled Hungary.

Claudia Law

I grew up whit 3 siblings, and they are all older than me, much older. I was the little sister they loved to tease. Since I was the fourth kid in the family, they told me I would turn in to be a chinees. Since every 4 born child in the world was chinees, I stood up every morning and looked in the mirror to see if my eyes was smaller...

Anon

My dad used to tell my brother and I we were 'pukes', not telling us what that meant and we thought we had some weird problems. Later he told us that he called my brother and I 'pukes' because we are half Polish and half Ukrainian.

Michaelina

I used to think that Hungary would always eat Turkey!

Michaelina

Since I'm Canadian, and my dad was an American living in Canada, he didn't have his Canadian citizenship. when I was about age I don't know, 5 to 10, I thought that if my dad didn't get his citizenship soon, then he'd have to move to the United States, and I'd never be allowed to see him again!! now he has his citizenship and all is good.

worryful tammie

I thought Canadians came from Canadia.

Anon

I read in the Pippi Longstocking books that people in China walked on their hands all the time, and I believed that for years.

zoe

Growing up I was told "Tintin" and "The Smurfs" were from France! They're actally from Belgium!

LongLiveRock

After I learned that the earth was a sphere, I knew we were on the top because we stood straight up. I also knew that China was on the other side of the world. Usuing my 5 year old logic, I felt sorry for the poor Chinese people who always had to stand upside down.

Anon

i used to think that spanish people were black

Ed

I knew that there were people of all colors. i thought there were black people (african american), white people (caucasion), yellow people (chinese), tan people (hispanic), and i thought that other people from different nationalities were different colors...including blue, green, purple, and orange.

poisen

I used to believe Turkey day was a Turkish holiday. Then why are we celebrating it in America?

Lecia