My family emigrated from an Eastern European country to live in the USA. After a few years, we all went to the Old Country to visit the relatives. One relative told us they had a very interesting doctor visiting heir little village, and he was BLACK! He had never seen a black person in his life. He never watched American TV, but did see movie posters. We told them that we lived and worked with people of many races in America. That impressed him very much. He thought most black people only appeared in movies like James Bond, or became doctors.
A childhood belief about appearance
others believed things like this
- I used to think the Black Country region in the UK was called that because everyone lived in darkness there.— K
- I thought that all black people were African-AmericanAnon
- I thought black people were black because they drank chocolate milk. — Shelby
- I used to believe that african american people were black because they ate too much CoCo Puffs— Jessica
- When i was a child, i used to believe that when people ate black beans, they became black— Mar'ia Elena
- I used to believe that black people were black because they had so many frecles that they merged together.Anon