These beliefs aren't mine, but of my friends. They are TERRIBLE at geography. They believe that New England is in Europe. They believe that South Africa is just a general region and not a country. Worst of all, they think there are 52 states in the US. Whenever I tell them that there are only 50, they tell me that I forgot Alaska and Hawaii. Their lack of knowledge of the states became apparent when one of my friends made a project which involved "taking a bridge from Florida to California." For the uninitiated: they're on different ends of the country. He didn't do so well on that project.
A childhood belief about places
others believed things like this
- I grew up in Hawaii, and was pretty sure that our country, the United States, was the fiftieth stateAnon
- I used to think that Hawaii and Alaska were different countries. I wondered were the other 2 states where!— x-nicola-x
- I used to believe that the United States were a planet, since I'm from another country.Anon
- i used to believe that hawaii was located right south of florida. hey, they both have great weather!— ashley
- I used to think the Black Country region in the UK was called that because everyone lived in darkness there.— K
- I used to believe that America was one of the states of the United States.— Limor