One of my classmates in kindergarten told me that Germans were filthy people and that Germany was a place filled with germs and you can get sick if you come in contact with a German. I believed this for a very long time and started to be scared of other people, because they might be german and i didn't want to get sick!
A childhood belief about nationalities
others believed things like this
- Since Germans speak German, I thought Jewish people spoke Jewish.— Lori
- I was afraid of my grandma because i thought she had germs because she was german!Anon
- I used to think it was illegal to speak German in Germany because of World War Two.— Anonymous
- When people would ask me what was my background, I would tell them 1/2 German and 1/2 Brooklyn!— Randy
- I believed that all Germans were Nazis because of one of my classmates.— Joseph
- I used to think that germans had germs on them and that's why they were called that— Jessica