I am Canadian, and when I was small, we went to visit my aunt's family in America for Christmas. My aunt had married into a Jewish family, and my older brother told me that her family did not usually celebrate Christmas, but they would this year just because we were coming. I knew nothing about Judaism, so I assumed, and believed for several years, that Americans (the only differnce I understood being our nationality) did not celebrate Christmas.
A childhood belief about nationalities
others believed things like this
- I was told that for every christmas carol i sang before christmas time santa would give me one less present!— K
- i used to think that every family had a brother and sister and they married eachother when they got olderAnon
- I believed that Robins hibernated throughout the year and only came out at christmas. Anon
- that we celebrate New Year's because it is the day that Jesus had his brit (circumcision)Anon
- i used to think that if i didn't celebrate my birthday each year my younger sister would catch up with me— q
- i thought I got one year older when my family sang the birthday song.— I am the ghost