When I was in first grade, we learned about Native Americans, and how it wasn't proper to call them "Indians." At the time, my dad worked with a woman who was Indian (as in, from India), and he made some reference to her being Indian. However, I had never heard of the country of India, and I got really mad at my dad, saying "No! You have to call her Native American!" He kept insisting that, no, she wasn't Native American, she was Indian. I just thought he was being really mean and ignorant.
A childhood belief about nationalities
others believed things like this
- Because of Pocahontas, I grew up believing Native Americans noises sounded like English to Native Americans.Anon
- i used to believe i was native american because i was a native of america!!!— rachel
- I thought that Indian Summer was like the weather in India.Anon
- I used to get mad when people used the word "native" because I thought they were making fun of my name!— Nate
- I used to think an avalanche was a type of bird native to the high mountains— Nina
- When I was little, I thought the Indian princess on the Land-O-Lakes butter label was God or Jesus.— Butterflyzz