so public schools have yearly standardized testing where i grew up. and there was always the section to fill in basic information about yourself. like name, age, grade, etc...
one of those was also for ethnicity. all the standard choices, african american, hispanic, asian, pacific islander/eskimo/native american/other and caucasian.
only i didn't know that caucasian meant "all white folks" (tha’d be me) so i marked the eskimo pacific islander one until middle school.
A childhood belief about nationalities
others believed things like this
- i used to believe i was native american because i was a native of america!!!— rachel
- 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