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

>>76462682
>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

>>76462682
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

>>76462726
This

>>76462682
Isn't the UK Britain? What's the difference?

>>76462726
this

>>76462740
Technically Britain is just the name of the major island.

>>76462682
>south America still had dinosaurs
YOU CAN'T MAKE THIS SHIT UP

>>76462706
>>my father fought with sword and shield when he was young
>brazil
he probably did

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

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

>>76462682

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

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>Santa Claus was real

I had no idea any other country existed as a kid

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>>76462740

>>76462682
>congo is in SA
>canada is part of USA

>>76462778
I love that one. Kiddos always fall for it.

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I used to think America was white.

>>76462682
was it because of the fleg?

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

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>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
>>76462733
we do that all the time
"Inglaterra", because "Bretaña" 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

>>76462682
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

>>76463020
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

>>76463126
Now i know why your english is utter shit

>>76463143
I also used to hate the UK with a passion because muh Revolution

Still see this every day on /pol/

>>76463163
They haven't passed elementary school yet, so the teacher has yet to tell them.

>WWII happened in neighbors countries

>>76462682
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?

>>76462778
lol

>>76463149
They do tho but change roller skates to mobility scooters and blondes to landwhales

>>76462682
>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.
>>76462831
nice explanation
>>76463157
what do you mean?
i didn't have english at school yet, i was like 7 at the time

>>76462726
>>76462738
>>76462748
Young "I'm 20 so I'm old" kids spotted.

>>76463241
I was alive when the Soviet Union still existed, grandpa

>>76463223
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


>>76462740
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNu8XDBSn10

>>76463174

Prove that argentina is european

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>>76462682
>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.
>>76463272
>>A bigger country - greater
>Russian flag
It checks out.

>>76463126
Secretly I like it when people use "England" but I'm a cold-hearted eternal who doesn't give a fig about the Celts.

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>>76462682

>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

>>76463268
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

>>76463352
I just remembered I also thought people in China were nocturnal.

>>76463371
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.

>>76462762
He was perobably thinking about uruguayans

>>76463400
>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

>>76463413
Only in California

>>76462682
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.

>>76463149
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.

>>76463337
You know, I think I actually thought that too. I always wondered where the money came from

>>76463413
Yeah, it's a weird coincidence actually

>>76463126
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.

>>76463515
how did you think that? That's a particually odd thing to think I think

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>>76462682
>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.

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>>76462682
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

>>76464405
How they replicate then?

>>76464462
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

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>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.

>>76462682
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.

>>76464595
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.

>>76462682
>Japan is real

>>76463292
That's chinese as fuck

>>76463360
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.

>>76463437
The US is the biggest fluke in human history desu

>>76464166
There are full grown americucks that still believe this shit i.e. Donald "Saudi Bitch" Trump

I guess people really elect their representatives

>>76464430
American stupidity really amaze me

>vrigin mary calendar is a death count down
TOP KEK

>>76462682
>China and Japan are synonims
>UK and America are synonims
>Italy is the capital of the world

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>>76462682
>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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNXKuwhhC1c

>>76463831
>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

>>76465494
>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

>>76465539
>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

>>76465494
>>Japan was where Taiwan is
This one is true in one of the "Mandela effected" universes.

>>76465628
>>thought Napoleon was an evil dictator

that's what they teach to your kids though

>>76465691
We don't learn about Napoleon at all because we don't really care about Europe

>>76465702
what do you learn about? Kangz n shieet?

>>76462831
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 /int/ 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

>>76465544
I really wish this were true for some reason.

>>76465744
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

>>76465628
>thought spain wasn't European because they spoke spanish and that all spaniards looked like brown Mexicans
>thought all South Americans were brown
100% correct

I though people behaved in the same manner everywhere
Basically like as if race was just skin, language and location deep

>>76465843
That's a surprisingly thin slice

>>76465999
In fairness I didn't go to a very good school

I thought that Portugal and Turkey are the wealthiest countries on the World

Since all I've seen there were 4* fancy hotels

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>>76462682
>The Netherlands was what Peter Pan was based off
>Blacks were alright and nothing to be afraid of
>Knackers were human beings
>The President was in control
>Finland wasn't a real country
>The Provisional IRA were terrorists
>The British Empire was good boys who dindu nuffin
>The USA were the good guys in the Vietnam War
>Lee Harvey Oswald was just a crazed gunman working alone

I thought the Amazon Rain forest was a type of rain forest

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>>76463452
tfw will never experience 90's America

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>>76463831
>Americans were the tallest people in the world
You're a bunch of fucking manlets.

When I was 5-6 years old, I thought we lived on a flat plane on the "bottom" of the universe. When I heard people talk about planet Earth, I just assumed that it was just another planet that we could observe up in the sky.

>>76468218
What do you qualify as manlet? I'm 5'11" and shorter than most guys here.

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>Frenches were naturally blonde

>>76462682
>all of USA is a desert and it rarely rains also cowboys everywhere
>everyone in Britain is a top hat wearing gentleman
>Canada is another US state

>>76465847
some are black tho

>>76468419
I just think it's hilarious how Americans think they're so tall when they're really just a bunch of munchkins.

>my grandmother and grandfather used stone tablets to write notes when they were in school
>only animals live in africa
>that there are still colonists fighing with indians in america
>people in australia keep kangaroos in their houses
>cinnamon is made from earth worms

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>Africa is a country
>America is a country
>all of the Middle-East is desert
>all of the Sahara is sandy dunes

>>76468889
>>only animals live in africa
Explain, polan

>>76469017
America is a country, Pekka

>>76462682
>the U.K. was called Britain
Most people wouldn't mind 2bh
But don't calling GB or the UK England lmao

>>76469033
I have bad news for you, Johnny

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>>76469017
I loved watching nature documentaries about africa as a small bab and they only showed animals there, so I assumed that is all there is there. I also though that sun was bigger there because of zoomed shots like that one

>>76462831
Dont mind this call everything the UK or great britain and you're good

>>76462682
>New Zealand had no white people

>>76464754
This is all true

>>76469103
I have bad news for you actually.
America is a country, North and South America are continents.

>>76462682
>America is white
>Australia is white
>Europe is white

>>76462682
>giant hayballs that farmers make each year are actually dinosaur eggs

>>76469365
This is fucking pants on head retarded.

>>76462682
I used to think there are only five countries; Korea, Japan, China, France, America.

And I thought every white people are american.

>>76462682
lmao it's only you OP

>>76469269
objectively, no.

I thought Montenegro was a black colony in Europe that became a country.

>>76469554
Wrong

>>76462682
>Didn't really understand the concept of a country so I just thought every other country was another state in the US

But it's true.

>>76469365
wtf germany?

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>>76469642
>>76469395
I assume he was talking about these.

>>76465758
No, it's not part of the United Kingdom but it's part of the crown. It's part of the British Isles though.

>>76469774
I know what he was referring to. It's retarded.

>>76462682
>thought the US was free

>America was white
>Europe was white

Didn't know black people existed outside the US

>Finland was white

>switzerland was a part of france
>prussia still existed
>romania was a part of africa
>thought everyone from mongolia had downs syndrome (mongol means retard in danish)
>actually believed that denmark and germany were enemies due to how people here talk about germany
>greece was still a country like ancient greece with big temples and people walking around in togas

>>76463223

Where the hell did you live? Are you an immigrant?

>>76470067
>thought everyone from mongolia had downs syndrome (mongol means retard in danish)
This comes from when physiognomy was still a big thing and people thought Downsies looked like "mongoloids" (i.e. East Asians)

>>76466050
Public schools here go from prehispanic to modern times, when i was in highschool it was until the Gulf war, now its probably 2008

>>76468419
King of manlets, thats like 175cm, women here are taller than that m8

>>76470247
What? Most Mexican women are like 5'2" max

>>76470247
168 cm manlet here, how much of a chance do I stand in mexico?

>>76470067
>thought everyone from mongolia had downs syndrome (mongol means retard in danish)

Same here

>>76469269
How diluted in memes you have to be to believe this?

>>76470300
I don't know but 168 is tall as fuck here in LA. You'll easily tower over most women, and the ones you don't are usually pretty ugly anyways.

>>76470067
People with Down's are called Mongoloids because the Dr. Down thought that people with Down's looked Asian (which he said is proof we all come from a common ancestor).

>>76470247
>women im mexico are taller that 175cm

Wtf are you saying, they all are like aztec dwarves (at least the ones that come here)

>>76470067
>mongol means retard in danish
Same in spanish, maybe they are so inbreed by genghis khan they're actually retarded

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>>76470247
Biggest load of shit itt. Don't lie, Juan Paco Pablo "Santo de La Rosa Guadalupe" Henriquez, we all know Mexican women are 4'11 she-goblins who don't shave.

>>76470332
There is no American continent and continental models that say so are more common than ones who disagree.

>>76470405
Kek

>>76469395
>t. never had bigger brothers and a child's imagination

>>76470287
>>76470364
>>76470405
Well, i live in Mexico City i hang out with a 180cm goddess and she doesnt tower, i was once in the metro and found a 200cm caveman, even chink inmigrants are tall for some reason, only midgets here are foraneos straight out of Oaxaca and Guerrero, literally indian reserves, they are the same people that flock to USAtistan because they have family there and i can confirm theyre like 156cm, it really depends on the geographic area

>>76470300
Im guessing youre an arab scum so not much, arabs and indians here are looked as weird people

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>>76462682
>China was the largest country in the world
>Chinese were some kind of upside down culture where people rejoiced a soul's passing into heaven rather than mourning
>the Wild West still existed and wasn't in any country
>everything was bigger in America, including ridiculous shit like furniture, doors, coins and cigarettes
>Viro and Eesti were different countries
>Middle-East is literally just one giant desert
>Gypsies and negros were the same thing or at least from the same place
>Russia and Finland were still at war
>Literally every Swede was gay

I was a simple and worried boy

>>76470434
I bet you believe earth is flat too

>>76465658
What?

>>76470567
Well that's interesting. I've met a mexican from Yucatan and he was very tall, but he had only spanish ancestry so maybe that's the most usual case in DF.

>>76470744
Most Spanish males are like 174-178

>>76470744
Yeah, its weird because everyone is from another state of the nation and there isnt such thing as 100% CDMX native unless youre an aztec who survived Hernan Cortes and the epidemic

>>76470632
"mandela effect" is one of the latest dank american conspiracy theories. it claims that whenever someone is wrong about something (usually an american), it actually means that their mind is in synch with some alternative reality where they're right.

in some versions of this conspiracy theory, it means that whoever is wrong is in synch with the "real" reality, that jews and bankers are trying to hide.

>>76462766
maybe banana and banana peel

>>76470896
Oh, that rings a bell actually.
Don't these people also believe that New Zealand was actually somewhere else and something about Goldstein/Goldsteen Bears or something?

>>76470602
>Middle-East is literally just one giant desert
Is it not?

>>76463337
Kek, I used to believe this too

>>76462682
>lithuania was a jungle country
this is accurate though

>>76465843
I wish history lessons were presented in interactive form like computer games. The reason I love playing Total war because I can reenact the history, although not really that historically accurate.

i dont think i had stupid ideas considering my grandpa was a geography teacher and i was looking at maps and flags before i could read

>>76470602
>Viro and Eesti were different countries

Nibba

I lived in Chile as a kid
>couldn't differentiate the other latino countries or accents, they were all just generic "Colombian"
>TV advs before christmas always trying to sell those realistic baby dolls for girls, but the adv was usually translated in Spain and I thought that the weird accent the girls used was Colombian too.
>When a Caribbean (black) spoke Spanish in TV I assumed it was Africa and Colombia reached Africa now.

Also
>usually hear adults complain that the country is shit, corruption, poverty, etc typical adult complaining about politicians
>Hear that the richest country are Norway, Sweden and Finland
>Instantly imagine their adults casually talking about how great their politicians are and how glad they are that everything is perfect

>>76462682

>Russia is an impressive country
>America is overrated
>Africa is a nice place for living

>>76471444
onko viro kirosana 'tana

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>>76462733
Kek, we do that, nobody says the UK or Britain, we say England for the whole thing. I imagine that the English don't mind, the others, oh well.

>>76465472
>>Italy is the capital of the world
that is true though

>>76472123
cute :3

>>76472226
its not
shitalians are subhumans

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>Niagara falls are somewhere in South America
>Poland is further east than Finland
>USA has no winter
>Yankee means someone from the South
>Finland is the best country in the world

>The UK was just another part of America overseas

I have no idea why I thought this other than the fact that both countries spoke the same language.

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>South and North America is the same continent
>Africa is all desert
>blacks are cool
>German is a Slavic language

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>>76462682
I thought I'd see white people with blue eyes and blond hair as soon i pass the european border. I don't know where i got this idea, probably from movies and advertisements. But then I've come to realize that greeks have the same shit colored skin with us

>>76462682
I thought all non-white people were turks because all non-white immigrants were refered to as "turks" by us Swedes

I thought Germans were all light skinned black people because my friends mom was half German, half black American GI and she had a strong German accent since she was raised in Germany.

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>>76462682
>retarded opinion
>dumb frogposter
Let's check the flag Jim
>LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS
it all checks out

I thought that England was still like King Arthur or Robin Hood times because I always watched those movies and read those books.

When I was in elementary school, an army exercise was held nearby, and they parked a few tanks in the schoolyard. I automatically assumed that those 4 tanks represented the entirety of our armed forces, and when I told my dad, he made fun of me and told me that Liechtenstein could attack us at any moment, which made me a bit paranoid.

>>76462682
Portugal will last another 1000 better then ever. Or so i tought.

Also son goku was português

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When we invaded Iraq in 2003 I was 9, I remember sitting on the floor watching TV in my living room and seeing Shock and Awe and hundred mile long convoys of badass looking American soldiers of all races going after the terrorists who did 9/11 and President Bush making speeches and I thought it was the coolest thing ever. Shock and Awe was like a movie, I wanted to see as many explosions and tanks and destroyed buildings as I could. I didn't comprehend that actual people on either side were dying and getting maimed.

https://youtu.be/f7iorfwcmeY

>>76466459
Hahhahah made me aad

>>76472161
>I imagine that the English don't mind
As an Englishmen, it triggers the absolute fuck out of me.

>>76465628
>thought spain wasn't European because they spoke spanish and that all spaniards looked like brown Mexicans
>thought all South Americans were brown
>thought Napoleon was an evil dictator

Those are all true tho.

>usa was great britain

>>76465843
So, you support William? :^)

>>76468433
we're not pure celts anymore

>>76462682
I thought that santa clause lives in finland

>>76464037
how old are you? when i was a child, none of the good cartoons were dubbed

>>76470327
And here

>>76462682
>Germany was a pinnacle of civilization
>whole of Europe and America is blond people with blue eyes
>Scandi is Northern Germany
>Russia is a frozen continent to the North
>the Earth is flat and you can fall of it
>the Moon is bigger than Earth
>Africa is an animal reserve
>South America is a jungle with cavemen

>>76472226
Rome is . Italy maybe not

>>76475489
I was 12. and i could see in the tv aired invasion is a city being destroyed and and people going hugry and dirty i honesyly thought america being the new hitler

>Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan and so on are all arab countries
>China is full of elderly wise men doing elderly wise things
>Japan is the most technologically advanced country in the world
>Native americans are all extinct
>Modern Macedonia is the same country Alexander the Great came from.

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>Jews didn't do 9/11
>The Holocaust™ happened
>Hitler was bad
>America was the best country in the world

>American education

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>Thanks to Pipi Langstrum and Nils Holgerson I thought Sweden is based af and paradise on earth.

Damn I still remeber the opening song to Nils in German, back then it was even better than anime.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWrCKqGdN4M

>The holocaust happened
>Jews are good people
>Helsinki is a good place to live

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>>76465509
>Brazil was in Africa

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In my mother tongue, Catalan, the word "truita" means "Trout" (the fish), but it also means "Omelette".

So when people mentioned the "truita de riu" (river trout), I imagined that there were actual living, swimming wild omelettes in the rivers.

Used to imagine Rome as being in Greenland since it was important and Greenland's location on the map looked important.

>>76476504
well it was

>>76476112
>>Africa is an animal reserve
>>South America is a jungle with cavemen

Not exactly wrong.

>>76476292
Japan is arguably the most technologically advanced country though... who else would you nominate?

I believed that foreigners see letters differently than us and in reality everything is in Finnish but due to *some reason* we see it the right way.

Think I was 4 or 5.

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>Thought Finland was a poor country and a shithole

>Jamaica was in Africa because of Niggers living there

>America was 90% white

>The majority of the world was European/White

>>76477989
>The majority of the world was European/White
yeah i thought that too

>>76477989

that poor shithole defended the north. get some respect norgay.

>>76477989
Until quite recently, I thought that Norway was a poor country in eastern Europe
dunno why

As a kid, I thought that Spain was located north of Brazil, and USA was located in Europe where Spain is

You're actually supposed to take a shit in the toilet and not on the street.

>thought Catalans were related to poles
>the Portuguese main industry is towel manufacture
>Paris is Disneyland
>Germans are still nazis like in the movies
>America is the best country in the world
>Japan and China are the same
>Koreans eat dogs
>all Australians look like crocodile Dundee
>Brits are all born with red skins like the tourists here
>Latinamericans were all brown, not a single Spanish looking person there
>Ikeas are Swedish embassies because of all the flags and "Sweden is cool" propaganda everywhere
>in the USA live all the superheroes and also are the only ones to get visits from aliens
>the Canadian flag is the most beautiful flag in the world
>Arab=muslim=maghrebis
>basque=terrorist
>all Catalans are greedy people
>Italians are Spaniards pretending to be something else
>Ukraine is a part of Russia
>Argentinians speak Spanish with Italian accent just for fun

>>76478470
Where'd you get a dumbass idea like that?

>>76477640
I've heard the US is actually more advanced, but that might be wrong, I don't really know.
Still, I thought they had actual robots on the streets and stuff like that.

>>76478827
Kek did you watch a lot of anime as a kid or what?

In the 90s I had a world map in my room that didn't have anything for Namibia and Croatia (I'm guessing because of the political situation at the time) so I assumed some countries just didn't have names.

>>76462682
>the USA included Canada

I didn't know Latin America was a thing. Argies looked like us so I just assumed Argentina was somewhere in Spain, Mexicans were only in movies so I guessed they were dubbed and didn't really speak spanish, local peruvians spoke it as a second language etc

>>76478928
Might as well be true tbqh.

>>76479140
shut up shartyboy

we'll take maine and alaska though, maybe the top half of michigan too

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>>76477640
literal meme

>>76479299
No, you won't.

At least, not unless you also take Washington. Please take us.

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>>76478827
USA is a huge country with lots of old infrastructure.
>>76479347
>literal meme
Excellent argument, all you're missing there is a meme arrow and a "muh" or two. How can I possibly ever recover after getting BTFO this hard?

That the name of the prophet Muhamed is composed of the Slovenian words muha and med (fly + honey).

Kek, I remember as a kid being confused by the German 'sch' and 'tsch' because our language is phonetic and we used Š and Č for those sounds. Didn't quite understand why they'd use such a redundant way of writing things. Also in English, never understood why nothing sounded like it looked like on paper.

>>76480060
I can see how one would make this connect tbqh. But how many Muslims do you even have in Slovenia? Kinda surprised you'd ever heard of Mohammed.

>>76480577
>Also in English, never understood why nothing sounded like it looked like on paper.
This is legit at any age. English is extremely autistic.

>>76477989
>The majority of the world was European/White

Lmao. I still remember leaving my small village and going to Lisbon and getting traumatized because they weren't like people in my village and the films I watched.

>>76480611
2.5% of the national population. Bosniaks, mostly, and a few thousand Albanians, but also the odd Arab, Persian, Turk, West African, etc.

I thought China was a group like gypsies, without a country, that existed here because that's it.

>>76480739
I thought Slovenia was one of those all white cunts like Estonia or Poland but I don't know much about it.

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>>76480666
Hail Satan

>>76480900 (Checked)

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>Siberia was a country

>>76480828
Yugoslavia used to invite foreign exchange students from third world countries in the 1970s, most of them African and Arab, some of whom married locals and stayed here.

Used to think Dutch people came from Denmark

As a kid I didn't have the concept of "where" so clear so when I thought of another countries I thought of them like remote places like Heaven or Santa Claus house, unrelated places where I can't be because they don't belong to my reality. When I went to a place near the border with France in summer and I've been told that from here to there it's France and from here to there it's Spain and I saw that the place was the same I almost had a existential crisis

>>76480017
My friend you gave no argument or legitimate claim for me to argument against. Memey robots are not part of a high-tech society, only in factories for now. When they have wide-reaching and actual applications/purposes then they will. Japan is no more technologically advanced than any developed nation, less so in many ways actually.

>>76481069
Kek

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that america was the greatest nation on earth :(

>>76465702
this is bullshit btw

>>76481204
This, Japan is kind of backwards in many things ie use of fucking fax machines.

I'd say that the Netherlands or Finland are the most technologicaly advanced. Germany, Sweden and Denmark too.

>>76462682
I used to call Romania Rome

>Amsterdam was the other name for England

>>76481493
Kek, somewhat similar, never understood why Romania is called Romania when Rome and the Roman Empire was in Italy.

>>76464405
but we're all gay, mon ami, hon hon hon oui oui

>>76481493
>>76481548
I too was fooled by Romania's "we wuz" as a kid.

>Albanians lived in mud huts in dirty villages with no technology
We had an Albanian girl in the class when I was a kid.

>>76481603
You're not wrong, not even joking.

I always get surprised when I see an Albanian flag, since it's strange to think that they even have internet.

>>76477989
>>Jamaica was in Africa because of Niggers living there
I learned jamaica isn't located in Africa like a few years ago

>>76481669
>Turkish education

>Colombia was somewhere in Southern Europe
>Dagestan was somewhere in Central Asia and the people there wore Vietnamese-like hats (i honestly don't know where i got that from)
>Kosovo was somewhere in Russia

I thought Romania was the homecountry of gypsies since we also call gypsies romanlar

>the U.K. was called Britain
it is
>South Africa wasn't a country but just a region of Africa
half true

- I grew up watching almost entirely American movies and tv in general. And because some of the movies were dubbed in Bulgarian, and they would say ''do you speak English?'' in movies often, so i used to think people in Bulgaria speak English, and i couldn't figure out who speaks Bulgarian then.

- I used to think all the American movies i watch are filmed in Bulgaria.

- I used to think Asia is separated between China and Japan, and they are in a constant civil war with each other, fighting every time they see each other. (like in the old chinese movies)

- I used to think England was in America.

- I used to think Bulgaria was the only country with Cafe restaurants.

- I used to think the Nile river was a small river in my town.

- I used to think Americans have bases on Mars, and there are people living there.

- I used to think everything North of Bulgaria is Russia, everything East is China and Japan, everything South is Greece, and everything West is ''Abroad''.

- I used to think ''Abroad'' was a country.

>>76481861
>we're Abroad

>>76481861
>I used to think Americans have bases on Mars, and there are people living there.
That's just the Jews.

>>76481861
Addition:

- I used to think a ''Mosque'' means a ''Big Church''

- I used to think Asians have slanted eyes because they stretched their eyes all the time.

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>canada was a big state in USA
>netherlands and holland were a separate country
>hungary was full of finns
>all nordic countries shared the same history and we wuz vikangz and shiet
>canary islands were in america
>scotland was somewhere in mainland europe, close to France
>hitler was the bad guy and commies were the good guys, even though commies invaded finland
>we won the winter war and continuation war, also thought that they were the same thing
>all swedes were sissy males with high pitched voice
>russians were all dirty criminals
>thought that finland was a poor country compared to most other eu countries.
>africa was a country and all africans lived in a mud hut
>denmark was just one big legoland

England was part of the US, or at least not anywhere close to Europe.