I grew up in Washington State, and used to love to sit with my parents' atlas and look at maps of the world. Every different country was colored a different color, and I thought this reflected the dramatic differences one would find in other countries.
When I was about seven, we drove ``across the line'' to British Columbia, in Canada. I was so disappointed to discover that the grass and trees and flowers were exactly the same colors they are on the US side of the border.
A childhood belief about places
others believed things like this
- When I was little I thought that Washington( D.C. )was in Washington state. Anon
- Living near Canada's border without cable, I didn't know I was American. — Romania
- I grew up in Hawaii, and was pretty sure that our country, the United States, was the fiftieth stateAnon
- When I was a child I always thought Canada was apart of the US... not its own country!! — clueless youngster
- I thought the only countries that drove on the left was UK and Hong Kong— Anonymous
- My younger sibling thought that Brittany was the name of the country where British people livedAnon