Until junior high, I always thought of Africa as one whole country with lots of states. No one told me otherwise till the day I answered a question about what was the biggest country in the world. I said it was a tie between Russia and Africa.
A childhood belief about places
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that Africa was the biggest country and Luxembourg was the smallest.Anon
- I used to believe that the United States were a planet, since I'm from another country.Anon
- I grew up in Hawaii, and was pretty sure that our country, the United States, was the fiftieth stateAnon
- I used to believe that traveling in cognito was a place in Africa or somewhere.— Jennifer
- I used to belive, that USSR is the best country in the World...:(— Iryna
- I used to believe that other coutries were other planets and you had to travel in a spaceship to go to Africa.— Sarah Jane