What are some misconceptions about other countries you thought as a child?

What are some misconceptions about other countries you thought as a child?

Serbia is evil

that Finland is home to Santa Claus
that England is a top tier country restricted only to best people in the world
that USA is a superpower
that Russia is an enemy

Europe isn't a shithole

>be me, 8 year old tard
>think wales is an exotic paficic country
>think that albania wasn't a real country
>think kurdistan is real
>for some reason I really liked switzerland and finland

I thought Balkans were still under our control but as autonomous goverments so they had their Boyko's and funny people.

that greeks are white and that their food wasnt middle eastern lol

I thought 3rd world countries didn't have cellphones or internet

I used to think the USA was cool

Thought black people had black blood

I thought Turks were just the invaders of Europe, but in fact they are better off than a lot of Balkan countries. They are also whiter than some of them.

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I used to think that brits were prim and proper types who were always polite and when I visited london as a kid they were both more crude and much ruder than Americans. Not just to us as tourists but even to each other. Say whatever you want about America but we have the nicest people ive ever seen.

>Say whatever you want about America but we have the nicest people ive ever seen.

tv make me think the US was great and I wanted to move there

You are a shitskin.

t. Mehmet

*cringes*

i believed colombiaANOS had cocaine with every meal

I thought nobody in Europe except the UK and Ireland spoke English

I thought Czechoslovakia was a country

Funny, I used to think the same thing.

I thought terrorists were behind 9/11.

Japan has Playstation 5s.
Turkey is full of Pilgrims
British people are nice
Russia stands a chance against America in war hahahaa

until i was six i thought every foreign language was some sort of weird muh heritage thing and that english was the only language anyone really spoke

>that England is a top tier country restricted only to best people in the world
until we let poland into the EU it literally was :(

that serbia and siberia were the same place

hahahah you soft cunt
also I wouldn't say you have the "nicest" people, they either have a massive stick up their arse or they're fishing for tips. You know this is true. The smiles are as real as the colour of the teeth.

Thought brazil was in africa
Thought that Austria and australia were the same

i thought that sweden was a country populated with far-left transvestites

oh wait guess i was right..

OH YEAH WELL I THOUGHT EGYPT FULL OF ARABS THAT STOLE THE HISTORY OF THE BLACK NATIVES

I WAS RIGHT GO FUCK YOURSELF

DELETE THIS!1!11

I thought Greenland was a huge and powerful country
Turns out they are only huge in size

I thought Australia's capital was Sydney

I though germany=europe

And if i say germany, i mean europe. If i say europe, i mean germany.

I thought that the back of maps were some unexplored parts of the earth so they couldn't map them kek
But that was when I was like 5 years old

I thought the Rocky Mountains were much more western than they are (crossing the Pacific States, not the Square States)
Everyone still thinks that
C'mon, Camberra isn't a proper name to anything.
On the other hadn, Sydney is a pretty common name here

I thought Argentina was very close from where I lived because my town has a neighbourhood called "Argentine"

I thought that Africa was a country.
I thought that there were only black people in South Africa.
I thought that canadians were nice.
I thought that Khazakhstan and Bhutan were arab countries because of the -tan.

>that Finland is home to Santa Claus
it is.

I thought that every ayyrabs are liars and have a cellphone, even the babies (maybe i thought that cellphone was invented by them, not sure)

& that chinese were scarymen cutting their friend's corps parts when they were bored or very angry.

I thought the US of A was white. I was an innocent child.

hmm i think you're wrong there bud, its obviously Greenland.