I watched many years of TV series M*A*S*H* right up to the very last episode and had never heard of the Korean War. I thought the whole series was about Viet Nam War, because there were Asian people.
This is what happens when you have coaches teach high school history, and they just don't care.
A childhood belief about tv shows

others believed things like this
- When I was a child I used to believe that movies and series were real.Anon
- I used to believe that God looked like an enormous version of "Woody" from the Toy Story series.— Ryan
- I thought that wars had to last four years... just like high school and college.— A. Falk
- I used to think that teachers lived in school and they slept there and just woke up to teach us.— tammy
- Until I was in High School, I really thought that the "underground railroad" was under the ground.— S
- Until junior high school, I thought Monty Python was a wrestler.— Jamie