the world: nationalities

When I was about five or so, I saw a beer commercial on tv. It was two guys having a beer, watching a football game. and at the end the announcer said " The American Beer". Well see I'm Canadian, and I thought that an American was what you called someone who drinks beer and watches football today. I believed that for a couple of years, till i finally asked my parents.

when i was a little boy, i used to believe that the story of the Isrealites happened in heaven. i never knew, Isreal is a country in this world until i grew up to see it the map(atlas).

When I was about 7 my parents took me and my brother to Purto Ricoon vacation. The first day we went to the beach I saw eroupean men walking around in speedos. I thought that they had lost thier swim trunks and were looking for them. i procedded to try and help them find their trunks until my mom told me that speedos were another kind of swimsuit.

I grew up whit 3 siblings, and they are all older than me, much older. I was the little sister they loved to tease. Since I was the fourth kid in the family, they told me I would turn in to be a chinees. Since every 4 born child in the world was chinees, I stood up every morning and looked in the mirror to see if my eyes was smaller...

When I was a kid, my mom told me that there were snakes under the turbans that male Muslims put on their head. I didn't have the guts to look at them when I learned that.

When I was little, my Mom told me that her grandmother was Austrian. I thought that I was Australian until I was in High School.

When I was quite young I remember seeing an old war film on the TV. There was a Chinese man who had been shot and because it was black & white I thought from then on, that all Chinese people had dark brown blood!

I used to believe that Israelis lived in Pueblos.

I used to believe Czajkowski was from Poland! After all his last name sounds so Polish. (like "Jan Kowalski")

I used to belive the French came from the moon and that the man on the moon was French.

I used to believe that American, Mexican, Chinese, Italian, and French were the only languages in the entire world! When my mom told me my last name was none of those nationalities, I was shocked!

Since I'm Canadian, and my dad was an American living in Canada, he didn't have his Canadian citizenship. when I was about age I don't know, 5 to 10, I thought that if my dad didn't get his citizenship soon, then he'd have to move to the United States, and I'd never be allowed to see him again!! now he has his citizenship and all is good.

When I was little, I saw a picture of Mafia gangsters in a book and thought they were Spanish instead of Italian.

My dad used to tell us kids that if we behaved badly the Japanese would invade and put bamboo in our ears and under our fingernails to punish us.
PS - Sorry to the Japanese people reading this, and we left my dad when I was 11.

i used to think all chinese people looked exactly the same

Last summer some of my friends and I (Canadians) were in England and we ran into a group of Americans, probably about 15 or 16. They asked if we were Americans, and we said no. So they asked if were from Canadia, in reply we asked if they were from Americana.