my sister believed up until about age 6 that coloured people, bevcasue she had never known many, were "chocolate" people. It took alot of convincing without her trying to eat one before she decided that they just had different coloured Skin!
A childhood belief about skin
others believed things like this
- I used to think that someone having dark-coloured skin was a result of eating too much chocolate.Anon
- i used to think that coloured people had the same colour skeletonAnon
- i used to belive that before films were coloured the whole world was black and white— daniel phelps
- I thought the "physically fit" lines in the song "I Like to Move It" were "fizzy coloured feet".Anon
- I used to think Joseph of Joseph and his amazing techni-coloured dreamcoat was Jesus' dad. Anon
- When I was 6 or 7, I believed that people could have yellow skin like in the simpsons— Noah