For the longest time I thought that the entire world was living in the past while the United States was the only country in the present. Ex: I thought that anyone from Africa lived in a hut and if you were from China you lived like Mulan. When an African foreign exchange student came to live with us I asked her if she had ever been chased by a lion. Bewildered, she said no. Then I wanted to know if they took field trips to the Savannah. No, they didn't. Finally I tried showing her how appliances work, thinking she'd be amazed by electricty, turns out she had all of those things too! I was sooo confused. It took a long time for me to realize that people from different countries live in houses just like ours. lol
A childhood belief about places
others believed things like this
- i used to think, when i was about 4 that i lived inside a whale because i live ion the country Wales— mike
- I used to believe that China was attached to the United States somewhere up near Washington state.Anon
- I used to believe that the United States covered almost the entire planet.— RAB
- 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
- It never occured to me as a child that teachers lived in houses. I thought they lived at school...— Heidi, Pittsburgh, PA