I used to think that because Chinese people were from China, Japanese people must be from Japa.

Rebecca

I kept hearing my husband say that "AL needs a Visa" to return her for work. Well, one day I said to my Hubby "Why don't we get him a card under our account" Boy was I ridiculed about that. I believed a visa was a charge card......I was 35 yrs old!!

stella

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 Hungary would always eat Turkey!

Michaelina

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

Yubi

When I was about five or so, I saw a beer commercial on tv. It was two guys having a beer, watching a football game. and at the end the announcer said " The American Beer". Well see I'm Canadian, and I thought that an American was what you called someone who drinks beer and watches football today. I believed that for a couple of years, till i finally asked my parents.

krissie

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

I used to believe that every person in the United States was left handed.

Peter I Walker

I used to think that Eskimo's actually always lived in Igloos, like that was their home and that Indian's lived in tents.....and I'm talking about the 1980's LOL!!

Smaada

when ever people said ther is an oriental rug i thought it was made from asian people

steve

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

Claudia Law

When I was about 7 my parents took me and my brother to Purto Ricoon vacation. The first day we went to the beach I saw eroupean men walking around in speedos. I thought that they had lost thier swim trunks and were looking for them. i procedded to try and help them find their trunks until my mom told me that speedos were another kind of swimsuit.

Sami

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 believe that about 25%-30% of the U.S. population was Jewish. After all, there were so many famous Jewish people!

Anon

I used to believe that Israelis lived in Pueblos.

Me

When I was young, I thought lesbians were citizens from Lebabanon. I remember seeing an episode of Night Court in which some character says "Christine, I'm a lesbian!" and begins to kiss the surprised Christine and for a few years after that I thought that people from Lebanon had some rather interesting social customs. I found it a bit strange,but I knew that Mongolians stick out their tongues in greeting and it seemed to just be one of those things...

Anon

I thought there was only 1 nationality in the world so I started talking to a German man in filipino.

CRAZYlittleKID

When I was quite young I remember seeing an old war film on the TV. There was a Chinese man who had been shot and because it was black & white I thought from then on, that all Chinese people had dark brown blood!

Silly Billy

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

When I was very young, I thought the word lesbian was the term for a citizen of Lebanon.

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