we live in a small, remote town in Europe. When we were little, my mum always had au pair girls from canada to look after us.
one of them was an african canadian girl. At that point, my little brother (he was 3, at the time) had never seen anyone that dark before, so he thought her skin colour was make-up and tried to rub it off...
A childhood belief about skin
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that people who were african american were dark because they drank to much hot cocoa.Anon
- For along time I thought the Middle East and Eastern Europe were just different names for the same place!— Helllowerer
- For the longest time I thought Pig Latin was an actual language that they spoke in a part of Europe.Anon
- I used tobeleive that skin crickets would eat my fleashif i went outside after darkAnon
- When I was younger I used to believe that the darker your skin was, the dark your shadow would be.— Mary S.
- I used to think that someone having dark-coloured skin was a result of eating too much chocolate.Anon