One time I heard that 1 in 4 people in the world was Chinese. I thought that meant one out of every four. For weeks, I would look around my class of predominantly caucasian students figure out which of them were really Chinese.
A childhood belief about nationalities
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that the Chinese boy in my kindergarten class flew from China every day to get to class.— Debi
- For the longest time I thought that Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer had a very "chinese" nose...Anon
- I used to believe that if you touched Chinese people, they would break.— Christian
- i used to believe that euthanasia has something to do with young chinese people— CW
- I didn't quite grasp the concept of time zones, and thought that Chinese kids went to school at night.— Giselle
- There was a Chinese takeaway near us called the Orient Express. I thought it was Onion Press. Yeah.— Spook