I am Caucasian, and when I was in kindergarten, I made my first African-American aquaintence, who happened to have the same name as me. We were the same age and size and found that we had similar interests and beleifs. This made me believe that there was an African-Amercian version of each Caucasian in the world.
A childhood belief about names
others believed things like this
- I thought that all black people were African-AmericanAnon
- I used to believe that people who were african american were dark because they drank to much hot cocoa.Anon
- I used to believe that african american people were black because they ate too much CoCo Puffs— Jessica
- I used to believe that if you were Caucasian you from New Orleans because they eat cajun foods.— Serena
- I used to think there was a place called Caucasia and everyone from there was Caucasian.— Lucy
- I recently very disturbed to learn that Al Jolson was in fact Caucasian.Anon