i used to think all chinese people looked exactly the same

moonie

I used to belive the French came from the moon and that the man on the moon was French.

caledonia

I thought that when a black and white person had a baby it would be Peurto Rican

Jasmine

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

Mari

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

My dad used to tell us kids that if we behaved badly the Japanese would invade and put bamboo in our ears and under our fingernails to punish us.
PS - Sorry to the Japanese people reading this, and we left my dad when I was 11.

Josi - Australia

I used to believe Czajkowski was from Poland! After all his last name sounds so Polish. (like "Jan Kowalski")

My precious

i used to believe that african natives were great at olympics because they ran away from lions and jumped up trees!

Anon

I read this article in National Geographic. It was about how people in (ancient) Saudi Arabia would remove people's hearts in some ceremony or another. Then, someone came to my Girl Scout meeting. She was telling us about Saudi Arabia. I raised my hand and said something like "Is it true that in Saudi Arabia they take out people's hearts?"

Ew

When I was little, I asked my Dad why Indian ladies had that red dot on their foreheads. He told me that they say Hello by putting their palms together like they're praying and raising their hands to their bowed heads so their thumbnails hit that spot on their forehead and, since people say Hello so much, it leaves that red dot on their foreheads.

Devon

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

LongLiveRock

I used to think that Africa was called "The Dark Continent" because it was full of Black people.

Anon

After one trip to the US side of Niagara Falls, where everyone I saw was Black, I assumed that the entire United States population was composed of Black people.

Jon

I am from Norway, and I have some reletives in Amerika. So, when I was 5 ore 6 I believed that every american was black with big, curly hair and tru ther noses they hade bones! =)

Tone Mari, Norway

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

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.

Anon

when i was in second grade they came out with flaming hot cheetos, but i had never heard of them. then a friend of mine was walking down the street so i went outside to see her and she was eating flaming hot cheetos and she was black. she offered me some and i declined because i thought they were cheetos that only black people ate. i called them, black people cheetos.

Anon

I am Chinese but I moved to a foreign 3rd world country(even more 3rd world than china) with very limited information resources at early age, I went to school with a japanese and a korean. And the only information I got was from reading dictionaries and the pictures on it and I read about 2nd world war and japanese carriers and since I grew up in the 80s jap products have become very popular there and i thought they were ruling the world and since they attacked china i thought they were better, but later i read on magazine that china had largest army in the world and I couldn't believe it since I only kno china thru chinese kung fu movies which showed very backward people, and this jap used to tease me and look down on me, But I now know better that china has developped nuclear weapons and space programs to kill all japs if we wanted...what a relieve japs are not ruling the world whew

confused chinese boy

i used to think that spanish people were black

Ed