In the early sixties, as a 3 year-old I was taken to England for a 2-week visit. I have no memory of the trip. I did however grow up with the knowledge that the English were tiny people that lived in flower pots. When I grew old enough to question the idea, I couldn't understand where such a deep seated impression was from. As an adult, I finally mentioned it to my mother and she laughed saying that while we were in England I used to watch a tv show called the "Flower Pot Men". Mystery solved, although I did visit again as an adult just to be sure.
A childhood belief about nationalities
others believed things like this
- When I was little I thought that a "wallflower" was a kind of flower that grew on walls.— A. Nonny-Muss
- I thought the England was EDGE-land but england was ENG-landAnon
- that when I grew to be an adult my parents would be children.— Rainbow
- i used to believe that a perrenial was a particular flower's name— Ducki
- I used to believe that tv people were tiny famous people that lived inside that box with a window called TV.— Miguel Horacio
- When I was little, I couldn't understand why people called me a tomBOY, instead of a tomGIRL.— Amanda