I used to believe that immigrants to a new country would eventually grow to look like the typical inhabitants of the country that they make their new home. For example, I thought that Chinese immigrants to the United States would eventually grow to look like "typical Americans" and no longer "look Chinese" after a sufficient period of living in the United States. That sufficient period, I envisioned, would be a few years or so.
A childhood belief about nationalities
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that the United States were a planet, since I'm from another country.Anon
- I grew up in Hawaii, and was pretty sure that our country, the United States, was the fiftieth stateAnon
- I used to believe that America was one of the states of the United States.— Limor
- i used to think France was in the united states
— TY - I used to think that Los Angeles took up half the United StatesAnon
- I used to believe that the maps for the United States and Texas were identical.— JTexas