When I was young, I would listen to people talk about "foreigners" and think they were referring to the inhabitants of some specific country. So, one beautiful day, my dad asked me "Do you know where foreigners come from, dear?", to which I hesitantly replied: "Uh... From Foreign?..."
A childhood belief about nationalities
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that anyone who wasn't British (as I am) thought of themselves as foreigners!— "velveire"
- I used to believe that foreigners' ears translated English words to their own languageAnon
- I heard my mum talking about foreign people, and I later asked, "have you ever been to Foreign?"— Kia
- I used to believe that if you had an animal listen to classical music, it'd eventually learn how to talk.Anon
- I used to think that foreign people coughed and sneezed in a different language.— Even more stupid
- I used to believe that all Christians were English and all other religious people were foreign.Anon