ITT: dumb shit you belived about other countries when you were a kid

ITT: dumb shit you belived about other countries when you were a kid
>in Australia people keep pet kangaroos like we keep dogs
>there still are cowboys fighting with Indians in parts of America
>people in China only eat rice and all of China is one gigant rice field
>people in Africa don't know about the rest of the world and when tv crews go there to shoot nature documentaries they have to hide from them like with Prime Directive

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>Africa doesn't have any cities and everyone lives in mudhuts
>Bangladesh is a city in India

>there still are cowboys fighting with Indians in parts of America
No that's still a thing

>everyone in german was blonde and white
>same for sweden
>england was basically a giant london and didn't have any greenery
>ireland and scotland were on the same island and lived like wild crazy leprechaun people
>japanese people were just white people that somehow all looked like one guy
>jews are incredibly numerous the same way christians are
these were my preconceived notions at a young age

>wales is some exotic jungle country
>finland and greece are brother nations
>albanians are greeks of a different country like cyprus
>poland is poor
>pakistan is in africa
>USA is a utopia
>chinese all look the same
>faroe islands are some exotic islands
>norway are vikings

>americans are fat and stupid

didn't know non-whites existed until i was 10 or something

>dumb shit

>ireland and scotland were on the same island and lived like wild crazy leprechaun people

This is basically what Anglo media wants people to think

wtf i fear the samurai now

I thought that it was common to see tanks driving in the streets in USA

why?

idk
like there was always some war going on there

i thought americas were as close to europe as british isles and that china was a separate planet

>Lithuania was a tropical island

My dad told me this growing up. I don't know why he said that. His mother was from there.

i visited germany when i was 4, i thought that they are still nazis.

>had big world map that was a few years old
>had ussr on it
>parents told me it didn't exist anymore
>thought the actual land disappeared

>jesus was born in America

youtu.be/NEA0Q_aKoJs

i thought lithuania were greeks, because they were a lot of lithuanians in greek basketball

He was obviously fucking with you

CJ!

>japan is actually a good and decent place

holy shit

During an exam about WWI in history class I couldn't come up with Austria-Hungary. All I remembered was that the empire's name consisted of a nation in Central Europe and some Eastern European shithole.
So I took a wild guess and went with Switzerland-Poland.

It still pains me to no end.

or maybe it was American education?

PANZER

>Hungary
>Eastern Europe

Mexicans don't count as Indians, and rednecks don't count as cowboys, Brendan.

In elementary school I believed the German military wanted to conquer Europe and had troops stationed at the border.
But the Dutch military ensured they never managed to cross our border.

Fuggin discovery channel.

>swerves to btfo parked cars
kek

>Latin America as a whole is (still) Portugal

I was born in cold war times, friendo.

>dumb shit
they're integrating your military into theirs as we speak, you weren't dumb, you just underestimated their sneaky, perfidious ways

Better than polan

That Wales was actually "Whales" and Princess Diana was the whale princess (whatever the fuck that means).

we visited chicago once in a really black area and it gave me the impression that cities were nothing but black people and every black person was from the city.

>USA was a great, prosperous and free utopia
>there are still hidden, uncontacted high cultures in the jungles somewhere, complete with golden pyramids and shit
>Aztecs lived in Africa
>all Russians are evil
>India is all 100% jungle
>all streets and alleys are really narrow in England
>>Lithuania was a tropical island
I believed Lithuania (Litauen) was a town or city somewhere in Germany

Naw, we don't have parades with our military gear like some damn commies. We just start wars when we want to show off our new hardware.

>Mainland Europe doesn't have safe tap water

>all the europeans are white and can speak english fluently

Not gonna be wrong for much longer desu

Thought Singapore was part of England. My dad always talked about how much he loved living in Singapore and how much he loved England. My grandma is from England.

Same with Canada.

The Dutch military is very mobile and able to deploy across the world. With neat choppers and boats.

While the German military has more meat to them. But they aren't very mobile. And if the Russians attack Germany is our first line of defense.

So it makes sense to work together.

Hello fellow oldfag. I'm just old enough to remember the Berlin wall coming down and my family celebrating when Slovenia became independent.

> All non whites are called turks
> France was a white country
> Finns were kin/brethren

>Spain is located next to Mexico
>thought spaniards looked like brown Mexicans
>didn't know New Zealand existed
>used to think Australia was located next to Europe
>thought India was part of the Middle East
>used to think Jesus was white
>thought all Irish people had green eyes and red hair
>used to believe that Napoleon was an evil hitler type dictator

:^)

When i was a kid, I saw something like "the japanese made super realistic human-like robot and it can understand basic commands" on the news channel and I said "hey that doesn't look like a normal human at all, also her eyes look weird and creepy" to myself.
Then i realized that there were actual people looking like that robot. Asians creeped me out for a while because i thought they were one of those robots.
But really, it's not my fault since i used to live in a small town without much racial diversity
I'm sorry asian anons

tut mir leid, dad

How old? 17?

>Brendan
I'm not entirely sure what stereotypical image you're trying to conjure up with this name

>canada is one giant city that speaks french
>rome is in greenland

Ugh...

>thought there was an Old Zealand

>Jews were incredibly numerous like christians

I thought this too, how do they get so much representation in media while being so small?

Boring, white, suburban, etc.

there is, it's a province in the Netherlands

Penguins lived in the Arctic.

>he gets dumber as he ages
ayyy

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeeland

sounds problematic

>>used to believe that Napoleon was an evil hitler type dictator
He was, except for the genocide and ethnic cleansing part.
>>rome is in greenland
How did you come to think that?
There is one tho

My best friend is brendan dagoberto soto and we live in the sticks

>tfw see LAV-III APCs driving down the main street all the time

My city is the home of General Dynamics Land Systems so they shit these things out constantly and drive them across town to the military barracks to sell off to allies or send to some other military base in the country.

Oppressive t'bh
And there's some Deshawns and Changs in my small Vermont town. Sometimes stereotypes aren't completely true. I know, I was also shocked to learn that memes aren't always reflective of reality.

>except for the genocide and ethnic cleansing part.

You mean the two parts people seem to remember him for?

Rome was important and Greenland looked like a central important spot on the map

>entire Asia is China

>Spain looked like China (before visiting it at age 8)
>Africa had mostly poor rural villages and where in danger of being attacked by lions
>India had old text dating back to 3000 bc (when I was 14)

It's not even central if you just look at a map of the Arctic Sea m8

christian education

>I was also shocked
>assumptions
Think almost every non white friend i know has normal anglo names tbqhwy

>switzerland is the german name for austria
>the vikings destroyed rome
>the statue of liberty is on an island near australia
>cuba and mexico are counties in spain
>jews cut off their cocks
>finland and the baltic countries are nordic

just remembered some more
>hitler killed his family because they had brown eyes and then started ww2 to kill more people with brown eyes and then killed himself because he had brown eyes
>war starts because one person kills another person and their family takes revenge on the killer and then his family takes revenge on them and it continues from there

>>jews cut off their cocks
But this one is true
>>USA is a utopia
I used to think the same. Who would have guessed that their crime rates are even higher than turkey's

Their entire cocks.

I thought Jews were very common in the US until this thread just now because US media always talks about them

I never understood how African Americans existed like how did they get there.

>england was basically a giant london and didn't have any greenery
Where did you get that from?
>>ireland and scotland were on the same island and lived like wild crazy leprechaun people
This idea seems comfy.

>americans aren't fat and dumb
>white people exist
>Poland isn't a shithole

The mad cunt.

my aunt lived in LONDON when I was young and took a bunch of pictures. that coupled with tv shows probably.

>cuba and mexico are counties in spain
What the fuck were they teaching you at school?

Turkey is a cold country (their name in Finnish, Turkki, literally means fell/fur/fur coat)

reminded me of this:
>youtube.com/watch?v=qlZh9-NQEyI

>Mexicans don't count as Indians
La Raza! Atzlan!

> russians is our bro's
> murricans eat in mcdonalds every day

>we visited chicago once in a really black area and it gave me the impression that cities were nothing but black people
That's still mostly true for a lot of cities.

>russia is also called the soviet union
>mexicans speak mexican
>confused korea with vietnam
>new zealanders don't actually fuck sheep

...

>North Korea was super far away from South Korea, somewhere up in Russia
>Half of Japan was radioactive and no one could go to that half
>Swiss people speak swiss
>A faggot is a group of Gay people
>A cunt is a guy who you pretend to like but you actually hate
>New Zealanders don't fuck their sheep before sending them here

I often forget Scandinavia exists.

>>North Korea was super far away from South Korea, somewhere up in Russia
What
>>Swiss people speak swiss
Many of them do though

What?
Are you sure?

>Iran was an American state
>Turkish Cypriots are the same as Greek Cypriots
>We had nothing to do with Greece/people from it apart from speaking the same language (leftist family) and we were not Greeks
>Russia was actually richer/more powerful than the US

>America is a country
>Africa is a country
>Middle-East is all desert
>Sahara is all sand
>Japanese and Chinese are yellow
>Indians are red

>polan
state of japaneses education

>everyone speaks, hears, and writes Finnish, but foreigners somehow have different visual and auditory perception and thus they see "cat" as "kissa" when reading English and "kissa" looks like "cat" when they read our Finnish

I still can't comprehend how I came up with that.

France is white.

>>rome is in greenland