ITT: Retarded things you believed as a child that relate to international shit

ITT: Retarded things you believed as a child that relate to international shit

>south America still had dinosaurs
>the U.K. was called Britain
>china was a continent
>Russia was still the Soviet Union
>Lithuania was a jungle country
>Canada was closer to what Greenland actually is
>South Africa wasn't a country but just a region of Africa
>the amazon river was in Europe

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>Russia was still the Soviet Union

>africa was a country
>my father fought with sword and shield when he was young

...UK is called Britain, tho

i thought the czech republic was still called czechoslovakia

No one really cares if you call the UK "Britain" off-hand. It isn't accurate but at least it's not "England".

>Honduras is in Africa

This

Isn't the UK Britain? What's the difference?

this

Technically Britain is just the name of the major island.

>south America still had dinosaurs
YOU CAN'T MAKE THIS SHIT UP

>>my father fought with sword and shield when he was young
>brazil
he probably did

>africa was one country
>there were no black people in Europe
>all of Asia = China

Also not Sup Forums related but when I was first going through puberty I looked for black people porn to see if black people made black cum.

>Older people used to see in black & white when they were kids

>Santa Claus was real

I had no idea any other country existed as a kid

...

>congo is in SA
>canada is part of USA

I love that one. Kiddos always fall for it.

I used to think America was white.

was it because of the fleg?

>central america was part of mexico a la Panem style
It would be nice tho

>USA and UK are the same country
>Everyone spoke Spanish but if you went to hotels, the movies were in English
>Europe is filled with old people (basically a retirement home)
>Africa is one big safari
>Every country has the same brand of cookies

The last one hurt the most.

>"wow people speak other languages outside of spain, i wonder how that works"
>ask my mom how different letters are said in english
>write a text in what i thought was perfect english "translating" letter by letter to attempt to impress her
>its complete gibberish
we do that all the time
"Inglaterra", because "BretaƱa" sounds awkward. And brits are "Ingleses"
In Spain and France we also call Germany "Alemania" wich comes from the Alaman people in west germany / east france

Used to think that England was another name for the UK
Used to think that the Nazis still controlled Europe because I missed class when we talked about WW2 in elementary school
Didn't really understand the concept of a country so I just thought every other country was another state in the US

I also used to hate the UK with a passion because muh Revolution and I was confused when my teacher said that we were friends now

This
>tfw grew up thinking americans were all rollerskating blondes who hung out at soda shops and chewed pink bubblegum and lived in big suburban white picket homes with a labrador and a muscle car

Now i know why your english is utter shit

I also used to hate the UK with a passion because muh Revolution

Still see this every day on Sup Forums

They haven't passed elementary school yet, so the teacher has yet to tell them.

>WWII happened in neighbors countries

americans are not racist.

My cousins used to have an au pair babysitter from Argentina and I always thought Argentina was in the Middle East next to Iraq. When they went to visit her in Argentina I thought to myself oh wow the Middle East is really dangerous why did they go there?

lol

They do tho but change roller skates to mobility scooters and blondes to landwhales

>south America still had dinosaurs
can confirm we still do

I used to think blonde people only existed in movies because there was virtually no blonde people where I lived. All brown/black hair.
nice explanation
what do you mean?
i didn't have english at school yet, i was like 7 at the time

Young "I'm 20 so I'm old" kids spotted.

I was alive when the Soviet Union still existed, grandpa

I saw various reports about how most spanish people couldn't even read english

>the Netherlands were islands
>Iran and Iraq are the same country, just different ways of pronouncing it
>New Zealand was located in North to Australia
>Sector Gaza was a region having troubles with gas, that's why it's called like this
>A bigger country - greater
>Egypt pyramids were discovered in 19th century
>Babylon was still existing and was a big relevant city with huge economy

i don't care about other country when i was a kid
actually, i don't care about my own country as well


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Prove that argentina is european

>I thought China was civilized
>I thought southern Europeans were warm and friendly
>I thought the USA wasn't one big nigger colony

>There's a man inside the ATM

I also thought the German flag was still the swastika on a red background instead of some tri-colour trash

I kept getting Sweden and Switzerland confused as a kid.
>>A bigger country - greater
>Russian flag
It checks out.

Secretly I like it when people use "England" but I'm a cold-hearted eternal who doesn't give a fig about the Celts.

>Africa was a country
>Canada was bigger than Russia
>Scotland and England were separate states
>Berlin was in almost the exact center of Germany
>The entire Iberian peninsula was just Spain

spaniards are turbonormies
its kinda like anglos that are taught a foreign language for 3 years but dont remember a word of it because they dont find a use to it, and ofc they wont browse the internet in a foreign language because thats "wierd". Same with spaniards
also old spaniards studied french not english

I just remembered I also thought people in China were nocturnal.

kek

All that shit you see in media like mexicans living like 19 century wild west or chinks living in traditional houses wearing clothes like those from emperors' times, and also all Brazilians living in jungles and all thata shit.
I used to think mexican spanish was the language of the US because all the media was dubbed in that dialect.

He was perobably thinking about uruguayans

>I used to think mexican spanish was the language of the US
It isn't?

I only realised "Japseye" (hole in the end of your penis) was reference to a japanese person's eye shape about a year ago

Only in California

When I was seven, we covered the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus. We then talked about all of the Spanish and Portuguese empires and how explorers from those countries brought back tons of gold to their respective countries.
I thought that this meant that Spain was the richest countries on earth. I was surprised when my Dad told me that the US was the most wealthy nation. I then learned that we lived in the most wealthy state and that the county we lived in was the third most wealthy county per capita in the country.
I don't know how I ended up in such a wealthy place. I guess I just got lucky.

If you were born in the 90s, this wasn't far off.

Used to think there was an ocean separating Mexico and America because all the maps I saw only showed American and Canada.

You know, I think I actually thought that too. I always wondered where the money came from

Yeah, it's a weird coincidence actually

We say "England" instead of Britaind or United Kingdom, Holland instead of Netherlands (with their respective demonyms) and the classical "galician" instead of "spanish"

I used to believe that Germany and Switzerland were part of Poland

Used to think Netherlands was a region of Denmark.

how did you think that? That's a particually odd thing to think I think

>Mexico was just a desert
>All Russians were swarthy and had bristly black hair
>Japan was the smallest country in the world
>Americans were the tallest people in the world
>American women had the largest breasts in the world
>Siam was still a country
>Muslims were chill desert nomad people with a pacifist religion

>people spoke Polish in all parts of the world (th-thanks cartoons)
>Africa was a small island in the place where Sicily is (and was a country)
>below Africily there was a land where only animals live
>Japan, Korea and China were one country
The world was simpler back then

> canada is filled with eskimos and penguins
> mexicans all wear sombreros and panchos
> europe is ruled by kings and queens
> south america is a giant mexico
> austria is in australia
> serbia is in siberia
> asia has no modern cities
> anime is made in japan

I thought all french men were gay because they have pencil moustaches and said Oui Oui pronounced "wee wee" a lot on TV.

I'm just gonna list off retarded historical and international things I thought of as a very very young child(like less than six). Wish I could remember all the goods ones though.
>World War One was either a terrible war everyone dared not to speak about or one lost to time (akin to LOTR being the far past that no can even remember what happened), hence why World War Two was taught in class so frequently with only fragments of info such as nurses tending wounded soldiers being all we know
>That Czechoslovakia, the Soviet Union, and Yugoslavia still existed
>Not really related but still interesting to me, didn't know about religion or what it meant but my aunt grandma talking to me about the "Good Father" brought an interesting viewpoint of some kind of syncretic folk Catholicism with an abstract being always watching, didn't even know about who Jesus Christ or what Christianity even was until I was closer to ten even though give religion's all over here in Burger land
>Never knew about nukes and so the strongest weapon humanity had in my mind was a German Empire era dreadnought
>As a toddler each year I thought that I would die and be born as a human baby to someone else at the end of the year, but when death never came I would always be confused, probably came from me not understanding the imagery of the Virgin Mary and baby Jesus on a calendar and my mind must've thought it was some kind of death countdown

How they replicate then?

Babies came from storks as well when I was a child.

>All muslims are arabs
>The language of Luxembourg is Dutch
>All of Europe is first world and rich
>All of the US had a cold climate with snow in the winter

>Montenegro was in south america
>Anime was from china
>Europe was just France, Spain, Germany, Italy and Greece
>Russia territory was actually China and vise versa
>UK was just another name of England

>Russia was still the Soviet Union
I grew up near a vhs rental store and everything I knew about the world I learnt it from movies so I can relate with this. Also Reagan was still president, the cold war was still going and so on.

I used to think that it snowed constantly in Europe during winter and that Britain was one of the snowiest places in Europe. Also since I only ever saw people speaking in English when I first started using the internet, I thought that European countries were weird, technologically backward shitholes compared to the Anglo world.

>Europe was just France, Spain, Germany, Italy and Greece
you werent wrong

I still find it funny that Montenegro in Serbian is Crna Gora, which is literally black mountain. No one wanted to call a country black mountain so they made up a latinized name for it with negro.

>Japan is real

That's chinese as fuck

Is browsing foreign language websites weird? I dont know anyone who does it regularly

I used to think that Canada was a rural country and was shocked to find out that it was like America.

The US is the biggest fluke in human history desu

There are full grown americucks that still believe this shit i.e. Donald "Saudi Bitch" Trump

I guess people really elect their representatives

American stupidity really amaze me

>vrigin mary calendar is a death count down
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>China and Japan are synonims
>UK and America are synonims
>Italy is the capital of the world

>If something wasn't in Spanish, it was either in English, Chinese, or "middle easterner" (something like Egyptian symbols)
>Canada was like pic related
>You could cross walking from Alaska to Russia, and from Brazil to Africa in a few mins swimming
>From Egypt to India, it was full of people that made cobras dance, and with lots of excavation zones
>There were a lot more countries in South America
>Philippines was as close to Mexico as Cuba is
>Australia was like the place in Anaconda movie
>Japan was where Taiwan is
>Mongolian territory was China's and Kazakhstan Russia's
>All Germans, Polish and Russians used dance like in this video with knives
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>Mexico was just a desert
Kek, used to think the same about the US because of cowboy movies

South Africa, Zimbabwe and Namibia were all white
Brazil was in Africa

@76465431 @76465471
Why are you still here? Fuck off already

>From Egypt to India, it was full of people that made cobras dance, and with lots of excavation zones
They still do intestine dances and explosive excavation zones tho

All Chinese people are kung fu monks

>excavation zones
Not at the level I used to think.

also, /his/ related:

>there are distinct and separate timelines for things such as cowboys, pirates, the romans etc. while our is the boring "normal" timeline

>used to think the Sahara desert was in South America
>thought spain wasn't European because they spoke spanish and that all spaniards looked like brown Mexicans
>thought all South Americans were brown
>used to think Albania and Bosnia were middle eastern Countries
>thought Napoleon was an evil dictator

>>Japan was where Taiwan is
This one is true in one of the "Mandela effected" universes.

>>thought Napoleon was an evil dictator

that's what they teach to your kids though

We don't learn about Napoleon at all because we don't really care about Europe

what do you learn about? Kangz n shieet?

Where does the Isle of Man fit in here. Is it part of Great Britain?

> south africans are the darkest because the mkre south you go the blackest people are
You can imagine my surprise when I saw white SA athletes at the olympics

Also not Sup Forums related but I genuinely believed that to buy things on the internet you needed to put the money in the disc drive until I was 11

I really wish this were true for some reason.

My school went
>Romans
>Angles and Saxons
>1066 (had to choose which king to support)
>Henry VIII and his slags
>Victorian Britain
>American Civil War/Slavery in America
>WWI/Franz Ferdinand
>WW2 (any of the shit we were involved in/centred around us)
>Civil rights in America and MLK