When I was in first or second grade, I asked a dusky-skinned girl what nationality she was. She told me she was Indian, and I told her something along the lines of that she couldn't be because Indians wore their hair in braids and she didn't. It wasn't until years later that I realized she meant Indians from India rather than Native Americans (who in old pictures most always have their hair braided). However, for years after that, she often, if not always, wore her hair braided, and I wonder now if she took my words to heart.
A childhood belief about nationalities
others believed things like this
- My father always told me that if I wore socks to bed I would grow hair inbetween my toes. Anon
- I used to believe that hair was only for men, and girls wore wigsAnon
- I used to think that bleaching your hair meant washing your hair with toilet bleach.Anon
- I used to think that everybody's hair was black and if you had blond hair, you dyed your hair.— ~_~CoolKid93_~_
- Because of Pocahontas, I grew up believing Native Americans noises sounded like English to Native Americans.Anon
- I used to hold my hand over my hair whenever i left the house and it was windy incase my hair blew away— lisa