I used to think that the little people used in population charts represented just one single person, and wondered how they could count every specific person living in every country.
A childhood belief about nationalities

others believed things like this
- i used to believe that when a person moved away, they switched houses with the person that bought their house— alli
- I used to think that if a white person and a black person has a baby it would be mexican.— J
- I used to believe that anonymous was a person, and I thought, "Gee, this person writes a LOT of poems!"— Katie Albano
- I used to believe that I was the only person who had my name, and that no two people could have the same name.— Rebecca
- I used to believe that Alexander Graham Bell was not just one person. I thought that they were three people!— J.D.
- when i was little, i thought that a con artist was a person that painted pictures of people commiting crimes— kimkim