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

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

>>77045735
>there still are cowboys fighting with Indians in parts of America
No that's still a thing

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>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

>>77045735
>americans are fat and stupid

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

>>77046237
>dumb shit

>>77046021
>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

>>77046237
wtf i fear the samurai now <3

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

>>77046336
why?

>>77046366
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

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>>77045735
>jesus was born in America

>>77046336
https://youtu.be/NEA0Q_aKoJs

>>77046403
i thought lithuania were greeks, because they were a lot of lithuanians in greek basketball

>>77046403
He was obviously fucking with you

>>77046449
CJ!

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>>77045735
>japan is actually a good and decent place

>>77046449
holy shit

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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.

>>77046481
or maybe it was American education?

>>77046449
PANZER

>>77046546
>Hungary
>Eastern Europe

>>77045930
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.

>>77046449
>swerves to btfo parked cars
kek

>Latin America as a whole is (still) Portugal

>>77046635
I was born in cold war times, friendo.

>>77046678
>dumb shit
they're integrating your military into theirs as we speak, you weren't dumb, you just underestimated their sneaky, perfidious ways

>>77046504
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
>>77046403
>>Lithuania was a tropical island
I believed Lithuania (Litauen) was a town or city somewhere in Germany

>>77046377
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

>>77046732
Not gonna be wrong for much longer desu

>>77045735
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.

>>77046719
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.

>>77046718
Hello fellow oldfag. I'm just old enough to remember the Berlin wall coming down and my family celebrating when Slovenia became independent.

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>>77045735
> All non whites are called turks
> France was a white country
> Finns were kin/brethren

>>77045735
>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

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>>77046675
:^)

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>>77045735
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

>>77046718
tut mir leid, dad

>>77046546
How old? 17?

>>77046675
>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

>>77046855
Ugh...
>>>/sp/

>thought there was an Old Zealand

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>>77046021
>Jews were incredibly numerous like christians

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

>>77046895
Boring, white, suburban, etc.

>>77046925
there is, it's a province in the Netherlands

>>77045735

Penguins lived in the Arctic.

>>77046925
>he gets dumber as he ages
ayyy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeeland

>>77046939
sounds problematic

>>77046825
>>used to believe that Napoleon was an evil hitler type dictator
He was, except for the genocide and ethnic cleansing part.
>>77046899
>>rome is in greenland
How did you come to think that?
>>77046925
There is one tho

>>77046939
My best friend is brendan dagoberto soto and we live in the sticks

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>>77046336

>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.

>>77046991
Oppressive t'bh
>>77047038
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.

>>77047010
>except for the genocide and ethnic cleansing part.

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

>>77047010
Rome was important and Greenland looked like a central important spot on the map

>>77045735
>entire Asia is China

>>77045735
>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)

>>77047154
It's not even central if you just look at a map of the Arctic Sea m8

>>77046938
christian education

>>77047116
>I was also shocked
>assumptions
Think almost every non white friend i know has normal anglo names tbqhwy

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>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

>>77047432
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

>>77047432
>>jews cut off their cocks
But this one is true
>>77046176
>>USA is a utopia
I used to think the same. Who would have guessed that their crime rates are even higher than turkey's

>>77047874
Their entire cocks.

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

>>77046021
>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.

>>77045735
>americans aren't fat and dumb
>white people exist
>Poland isn't a shithole

>>77046449
The mad cunt.

>>77047973
my aunt lived in LONDON when I was young and took a bunch of pictures. that coupled with tv shows probably.

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>>77047432
>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)

>>77046449
reminded me of this:
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlZh9-NQEyI

>>77046675
>Mexicans don't count as Indians
La Raza! Atzlan!

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

>>77046732
>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

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>>77048054

>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.

>>77048350
>>North Korea was super far away from South Korea, somewhere up in Russia
What
>>Swiss people speak swiss
Many of them do though

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>>77048439
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

>>77046720
>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.

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>>77045735
France is white.

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>>77046899
>>rome is in greenland

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>>77048725
holy shit what

>>77045735
>The British were all highly refined and cultured people.
>Eastern Europe was all gray (cold war kid).
>Germans all had bad haircuts.
>Russians were all ugly peasant people
>Eskimos/Inuits still dressed in fur and lived in Igloos
>The Artic had penguins

>>77048762
>literal argentinian in the middle

>>77048533
>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


Well that's true

>>77048617
>Sahara is all sand
You mean it isn't?

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>>77048985
>Russia was actually richer/more powerful than the US
>Well that's true
Have you been sniffing glue?

>>77048533
>Iran was an American state
I have questions

>>77048725
You on meds now or what?

I thought that president Bush could get in a boat and go to Iraq and talk with the president there and avoid war
:_;

Italian men are walking statues

>>77048985
Which part

>>77045735
aninals are speaking

I thought all British people were super smart and England was a really good place to live

I thought Americans spoke Japanese with a funny accent due to dubbed films.

I thought mixing mashed potatoes with milk in my mouth became milk for lactose intolerant people

>Everyone in England was super old fashioned and polite
>America was clean and everyone had money
>Mexico was in Spain
>Russia was smaller than Poland
>Finns were Scandinavian
>Canadians all talked like the flappy head people on South Park
>Germans were all obese and hated foreigners
>Turkey were Christian

>I thought Mexico was one big country starting from the south of the US
>Spain is also in Mexico

>>77047432
>Types "Nordic countries" Google.
>"Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, including their associated territories (Greenland, the Faroe Islands, and the Åland Islands)."

Cameroon was where me mate Cameron came from

There is a German fairytale about a lady called "Frau Holle". She lives up in the sky and when it snows it's because she is shaking her pillow.

I believed that Frau Holle lives in Holland and hence that Holland is up in the sky. I was always surprised when seeing a yellow signplate because they needed to have a really long journey all the way down from the sky.

>>77048505
Whatever it is that they speak there, it is most definitely not German. Don't trust them if they claim it.

>>77048505
German is an official language, but the standard is slightly different from the German standard.
But people in Switzerland speak Swiss (German). I'll give you an example of what it looks like.
Am Freitag geht ein Traum in Erfüllung. (Standard German)
Dä friti geit e troum i erfüuig (Bern Swiss German)

For some reason I thought Israel was called Jewland, that's it as far as I can recall

>>77045735
>France is very far away from home and is composed of a shopping mall and a buffet restaurant
>Germany is a very big Nordic country made of two smaller Germanies that exist for no particular reason and is extremely far away to the north
>everything from India to Arabia is the same country, looks like Aladdin's Agrabah and is full of snake charmers, flying carpets and genie lamps
>Vatican City is a football club supported by the Pope
>Russians are like Germans and their language is the same as Spanish, but written with a few different letters
>Tintin's Syldavia and Borduria are actual countries
>Transylvania is a country full of castles, vampires, monsters and scary ugly people in general
>Turkey has cannons that fire cannonballs with crescent moons painted on them
>Egypt is a lot like Ancient Egypt, same for Greece
>China is the only country in East Asia
>Catholics are the most numerous and the "best"
>Protestants are relatively uncommon Christians from northern Germany
>Jews are very numerous and all of them live in Israel
>Muslims are not members of a specific religion, but a group of levitating beardy men like the ones from Aladdin

>>77050421
Right, but not ethnically the same.

>>77046938
Because jews control the media.
Same reason why holocaust movies are only about jews

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>>77050724
>Vatican City is a football club supported by the Pope

i really like this one.

Nothing particular geographical,but i thought allianced were made up of friendship between the two people. So Britan und US are the bestest of firends, and particular France and spain (because musket era)

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>>77050549
You are absolutely adorable anon.

>>77048725
Best post itt.

>>77051272
t-thank you :3

>>77047396
IME
>Asians
Anglo named, but usually also have an ethnic name that they don't use
>Latinos
25% Anglo / 75% Latin
>Blacks
50% Anglo / 50% ghetto

>>77050724
Slow down, you're flipping my perception of reality arse ways

>Germany is an asian country just like china japan and korea
>Turkey is the saviour of the muslim people and the rest of the Middle east is an african tier shithole
>WW2 was just the allies raping germany with no opposition
>Japan is the most advanced country ever because they have robots in their country

>>77048880
>The British were all highly refined and cultured people.
>Eastern Europe was all gray (cold war kid).
>Germans all had bad haircuts.
>Russians were all ugly peasant people
>Eskimos/Inuits still dressed in fur and lived in Igloos
all true

Americans/Brits/French etc are white

>>77048880
>>The British were all highly refined and cultured people.
Still had this illusion just a few years ago

Let's see:
>Spain is an exotic country where they worship sun and moon gods (I think I was confusing it with Morocco)
>used to hate Japan because they were successul and prosperous while China wasn't, and I was a huge chinaboo as a kid for some reason
>England is covered entirely with forests and medieval castles (except for London). Also thought England and Sweden were like brother and sister countries for some reason.
>French people still live and dress like it was the 1800s
>Mexico is still the wild west, a huge desert filled with 3 pointed cactuses and cowboys
>thought white women desired black people

I thought Europe was like one large utopia. My father went there and said everyone is thin and rides around on mopeds, and they look "sophisticated" too. It's kind of depressing to compare that to how I see things nowadays - my thoughts seem more accurate, but all the wonder is gone.

thought japanese were ninjas that played yugioh all day

I believed that Slovenia was the largest country in the world. My uncle had a good laugh when I told him. :/

>>77051830
Most people have this illusion until they see British tourists for the first time.

I thought all non Spanish Europeans (tourists) had natural red skins and were poor people because they dressed like hobos wearing their sacks and sandals and ugly souvenir tshirts.

>>77051867
I wish

>>77052039
>I thought Europe was like one large utopia
I thought Sweden was like this perfect Utopian society. Sadly some people here still think that.

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>>77048805
I was an imaginative child.

>>77049263
No, just assburgers.

>>77046822
>>77048762
We're still a white country, tho

>>77051830
>>77052352
I think it's their traditional media (movies, television dramas and documentaries).

>>77052039
>>77052402
Have you ever been to Europe or are you just saying this based on what you've seen on Fox News?

>everywhere in world sea is at north

I thought John Paul II was a ftm trans because Carol sounds like a woman's name in Spanish.

>>77046449
shit, now I want tank.

how can I get one?

>>77052553
I've been to Germany, Vienna and Prague. Sweden has ghettos that I as a kid was unaware of and for some reason people their can obtain grenades. They are below the U.S. in HDI and PISA for science. That's not a Utopia by any means.

>>77052844
>their
*there
I mean it's not shit but it's not a Utopia.

>>77052709
kek
I just thought he was smart to change his name because Karol Wojtyła was harder to say than "Juan Pablo".

>>77052897
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OpQYVPWBjA it was until the 1968 thing came up.

>everyone in Europe is white

>>77052553
>Fox News
I don't understand what you mean. I still think Europe as a whole is wonderful, but the image I gathered from bits and pieces during my childhood made it seem like a perfect place with no problems. I used to be fascinated by the designs on their currency or how the mannerisms of other societies differed from ours, but now it's nothing to me. Being able to label each country on a map and say something of it is nice, yet I've lost that genuine wonder and interest I had for the place that I had as a child. Not because of politics, but because of aging.

>>77053558
that was a stupid post anyways

>>77048725

I know exactly what you mean, in fact I thought the same way. Except with English.

S an American reading the British word for "cat" would appear to his sensory/auditory perceptions as the American word for "cat".

Or if a British person read the Roman/Medieval Latin words for "Magna Carta", it would appear to the British person as "Magna Carta, we invented law and language and not the EU so Brexit is the only logical thing to do oi oi let's have a pint"

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>>77053684
>someone understands my genius

>all continents are floating on sea
>if you dig deep enough you will make it to the sea, wells are exactly that
>seawater isn't really that salty, it's just called that way, same as sweet water isn't sweet (we call fresh water "sweet water" for some reason)

Also, I thought Czech Republic was located in France because our Western Borders looked identical to 3 years old me

>>77045891
both true

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>>77050698
>Am Freitag geht ein Traum in Erfüllung.
>Dä friti geit e troum i erfüuig
two dialects of the same language

>V pátek se splní sen
>V piatok sa splní sen
two separate, completely different languages

why is this allowed?

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i thought stalingrad was moscow renamed

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all americans look like this

>Japan is China's colony
>Spain is in South America
>Finland is an asian country
>couldn't tell the difference between germanic nations they were all Germany

>>77045735

Sadly I can't think of any dumb shit I used to believe in as a child.. of foreign countries or otherwise. Education was very tight for us.. We had to smuggle our dumb shit from across the border Malaysia.

Tourists often took pity on us and were always generous with their dumbshit. Americans were famous for their generosity. Germans less so.

I still remember when Bush and the retired Bill Clinton visited our humble third-world. I was awed at the abundance of dumbshit they opened our squinting eyes to in America. I remember being skeptical at first, they seemed overly charitable; almost oblivious to the fact they were giving out dumbshit like it grew on trees. Surely, their nation and people were not THAT full of dumbshit, I thought. This surely must be for show to impress us.. I was wrong of course.

>they only eat bugs in Africa

my parents told me that so I wouldn't want to go with my friend who invited me to South Africa, I still regret not going...

>>77045735

Though id been deprived of dumbshit as a child growing up, I'm thankfull the children here today now live in a third-world that's plentiful of dumbshit. Largely in part thanks to the Americans and their efforts. Thanks, America, for all the dumbshit we have today.

I can hardly exaggerate, dumbshit is everywhere. Children are spoilt for choice, from Fox news to CNN. Ah. What a great time to be alive. I hear even the Germans have started liberally embracing dumbshit. Good for them. Japan of course is still holding out against the import of dumbshit in favour of protecting their local manufacturers, but im sure they'll come around to it.

>mexico is a desert full of cowboys
>china is still living in ancient times
>all people do is chill in hawaii
>every italian had a mustache
>america were the good guys

>western U.S.A is still full of old wooden wild west towns and cowboys fighting indians

Wish this was true desu. I cried when my mum told me it had roads and mcdonalds and stuff

>>77053020
wow, a river with some bridges over it. what a utopia.

>>77055428
>couldn't tell the difference between germanic nations they were all Germany
Hello Hitler. So you did escape to South America after all.

>>77052235
I wanted to be Italian when I was a kid, because the kids whose families were from Yugoslavia got made fun of.

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>>77046675

ur mom

>>77054927
You weren't the only one