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
>africa was a country >my father fought with sword and shield when he was young
Brandon Wright
...UK is called Britain, tho
Luke Hall
i thought the czech republic was still called czechoslovakia
Evan Adams
No one really cares if you call the UK "Britain" off-hand. It isn't accurate but at least it's not "England".
Brandon Gray
>Honduras is in Africa
David Campbell
This
Eli Harris
Isn't the UK Britain? What's the difference?
Caleb White
this
Jonathan Lewis
Technically Britain is just the name of the major island.
Landon King
>south America still had dinosaurs YOU CAN'T MAKE THIS SHIT UP
Josiah Collins
>>my father fought with sword and shield when he was young >brazil he probably did
Jacob Roberts
>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.
Liam Price
>Older people used to see in black & white when they were kids
Caleb Lee
>Santa Claus was real
Kayden Scott
I had no idea any other country existed as a kid
Dylan Bennett
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Joshua Taylor
>congo is in SA >canada is part of USA
Parker James
I love that one. Kiddos always fall for it.
Jason Clark
I used to think America was white.
Elijah Lopez
was it because of the fleg?
Nolan Reyes
>central america was part of mexico a la Panem style It would be nice tho
Jose Powell
>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.
Logan Allen
>"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
Sebastian Jones
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
Hunter Hernandez
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
Andrew Richardson
Now i know why your english is utter shit
Xavier James
I also used to hate the UK with a passion because muh Revolution
Still see this every day on Sup Forums
Noah Lewis
They haven't passed elementary school yet, so the teacher has yet to tell them.
Zachary Perez
>WWII happened in neighbors countries
Austin Cooper
americans are not racist.
Joseph Richardson
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
Nathaniel Hall
They do tho but change roller skates to mobility scooters and blondes to landwhales
Levi Ramirez
>south America still had dinosaurs can confirm we still do
Elijah Carter
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
William Green
Young "I'm 20 so I'm old" kids spotted.
Jack Parker
I was alive when the Soviet Union still existed, grandpa
Samuel Price
I saw various reports about how most spanish people couldn't even read english
Juan Evans
>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
Blake Turner
i don't care about other country when i was a kid actually, i don't care about my own country as well
>I thought China was civilized >I thought southern Europeans were warm and friendly >I thought the USA wasn't one big nigger colony
Liam Smith
>There's a man inside the ATM
Adam Parker
I also thought the German flag was still the swastika on a red background instead of some tri-colour trash
Anthony Cox
I kept getting Sweden and Switzerland confused as a kid. >>A bigger country - greater >Russian flag It checks out.
Henry Bennett
Secretly I like it when people use "England" but I'm a cold-hearted eternal who doesn't give a fig about the Celts.
Colton Hughes
>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
Jose Morris
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
Colton Jones
I just remembered I also thought people in China were nocturnal.
Benjamin Edwards
kek
Jack Walker
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
Justin Rogers
>I used to think mexican spanish was the language of the US It isn't?
Kevin Anderson
I only realised "Japseye" (hole in the end of your penis) was reference to a japanese person's eye shape about a year ago
Landon Hernandez
Only in California
Nicholas Cook
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.
Brayden Green
If you were born in the 90s, this wasn't far off.
Christopher Bennett
Used to think there was an ocean separating Mexico and America because all the maps I saw only showed American and Canada.
Jace Gomez
You know, I think I actually thought that too. I always wondered where the money came from
Cameron Reed
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"
Christopher Perry
I used to believe that Germany and Switzerland were part of Poland
James Morris
Used to think Netherlands was a region of Denmark.
Nolan Green
how did you think that? That's a particually odd thing to think I think
Zachary Butler
>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
Daniel Flores
>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
Aiden Phillips
> 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
Elijah Flores
I thought all french men were gay because they have pencil moustaches and said Oui Oui pronounced "wee wee" a lot on TV.
Michael Gray
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
Jace Cruz
How they replicate then?
Oliver Ortiz
Babies came from storks as well when I was a child.
Andrew Lewis
>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
Dominic Wood
>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
Elijah Morales
>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.
Jack Lopez
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.
Robert Ortiz
>Europe was just France, Spain, Germany, Italy and Greece you werent wrong
Eli Howard
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.
Alexander Wilson
>Japan is real
Mason Ward
That's chinese as fuck
Nathan Ortiz
Is browsing foreign language websites weird? I dont know anyone who does it regularly
Landon Garcia
I used to think that Canada was a rural country and was shocked to find out that it was like America.
Nicholas Perez
The US is the biggest fluke in human history desu
Kevin Parker
There are full grown americucks that still believe this shit i.e. Donald "Saudi Bitch" Trump
I guess people really elect their representatives
Ayden Roberts
American stupidity really amaze me
>vrigin mary calendar is a death count down TOP KEK
Hunter Cook
>China and Japan are synonims >UK and America are synonims >Italy is the capital of the world
Joshua Martin
>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 2:04 youtube.com/watch?v=rNXKuwhhC1c
>Mexico was just a desert Kek, used to think the same about the US because of cowboy movies
Jose Martin
South Africa, Zimbabwe and Namibia were all white Brazil was in Africa
Jason Myers
@76465431 @76465471 Why are you still here? Fuck off already
Anthony Miller
>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
Charles Hill
All Chinese people are kung fu monks
Joseph Diaz
>excavation zones Not at the level I used to think.
Jaxon Sanchez
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
Ryder Williams
>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
Evan Martinez
>>Japan was where Taiwan is This one is true in one of the "Mandela effected" universes.
Nathan Richardson
>>thought Napoleon was an evil dictator
that's what they teach to your kids though
Chase Clark
We don't learn about Napoleon at all because we don't really care about Europe
Eli Fisher
what do you learn about? Kangz n shieet?
Isaac Robinson
Where does the Isle of Man fit in here. Is it part of Great Britain?
Jace Hall
> 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
Cameron Davis
I really wish this were true for some reason.
Jordan Fisher
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