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I was reading about the Phillipines in class one day, and they kept referring to the Filipinos (people from the Phillipines), but my eyes skipped the first I and I kept referring to people from the Phillipines as being Flipino.
When I was little I used to believe that you could only marry someone of the same race or nationality. I remember there was only one black boy and one black girl in my class and I felt bad they they could only marry each other. And there was an asian girl in my class, but no asian boys and I felt so sorry for her that she would never get married.
Charity
Last summer some of my friends and I (Canadians) were in England and we ran into a group of Americans, probably about 15 or 16. They asked if we were Americans, and we said no. So they asked if were from Canadia, in reply we asked if they were from Americana.
Cassiandy
When I was a kid,(about 5 or 6), my mother was driving somewhere and she told me,"Look, there's an Indian man walking down the street." I looked, expecting to see a Native American chief complete with feathered headdress and war paint, like I'd seen in movies. When I saw an ordinary-looking man with a dot on his forehead, I said "That's not an Indian!" My mother had to explain the difference between people from India and Native Americans.
OpheliaHoss
When I was about 8-9 years old, I used to think Lesbians were people who had come from a country called Lesbia.
Mya
When I was little, my sister told me that there were a bunch of different people exactly like me, doing everything I was doing, at that time, in every country. But I thought they were doing it in French in France, and Chinese in China. Like that Brown commercial.
Sonia
I used to believe that Scotch tape was made from ground-up Scottsmen who had in some way betrayed their country.
Rachel
When we tuned in to Americana music, I thought that the word "Americana" means a woman is of an American descent.
I used to believe that a racist is something like a person who loves to race on the racetrack.
When I was growing up there were only four countries: The United States, Canada, China, and Russia. China and Russia were on the other side of Earth and right next to each other, like Canada and the US are. And the Cold War was named that because it was in Russia, and it was cold there.
I used to believe Saddam Hussein was Uncle Sam.
M
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.
I used to tell my mom that i never want to be turkish, when she finally asked me why, i replied saying because everyyear at thanksgiving we always eat the turkeys!!
Anna
When i was younger i thought that england was the only country in the world that had the internet!! When i was even younger i thought England was the only country in the world! I was terrifed when some from another country came to my house or on the T.V because i thought they were aliens!!!
~*silly moo*~
up until the age of 19, i thought that spanish food consisted of tacos and burritos until i realized that spain has a culture and culinary world much separate from mexico and latin america
victor
When I was in first grade, we learned about Native Americans, and how it wasn't proper to call them "Indians." At the time, my dad worked with a woman who was Indian (as in, from India), and he made some reference to her being Indian. However, I had never heard of the country of India, and I got really mad at my dad, saying "No! You have to call her Native American!" He kept insisting that, no, she wasn't Native American, she was Indian. I just thought he was being really mean and ignorant.
ME and my couzin told her brother that we were from Ireland and we had a language of our own and that grandma held a ceremony for us to become true Irisians. He believed then asked his mom if it was true and we got punished but it was worth it!
Nicole
When I was little and everyone would talk about the Palestinians(sorry can't spell)I used to think that they were saying "palace indians" and in my head I had an image of indians living in the Buckingham Palace.
Sarah
I thought that asylum seekers were people who were mad and wanted to find an asylum.
Little Penguin
When I was 3 I went to Spain with my parents and while standing in the middle of a really crowded street I asked my mother where the spaniards were... I guess I was expecting to see really strange creatures instead of regular people just like me...
sao joao
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