I used to believe, whenever I heard the term "third world", that it meant the place we now live because the first and second world wars had destroyed the first and second worlds.
A childhood belief about wars
others believed things like this
- I used to think that world wars's were called war wars. So then World War II became War War II.— Maria
- Even though I knew about Roman numerals when I was younger, I thought that there was 11 world wars.Anon
- I thought the world was black and white because of all the smoke from the bombs in Second World War.— Bjoern
- Until a few years ago, I believed this was a "doggy dog" world, rather than a "dog-eat-dog" world.— jemima
- I used to believe that the North Pole was the coldest place in the world and the South Pole was the hottest...— Logica
- I used to think that the phrase "It's a dog eat dog world'' was its a dogey dog world.— Gabral