>Stupid things you used to believe about other countries
French women walked around naked to attract men.
When I was really little I thought Africa was a country.
Swedish men are all cucks or gay.
>>58379958
i actually never did, simply because iam smart.
America was free.
I thought Singapore and Canada were part of England since my dad would talk about visiting those places.
>Spanish people are alright
When I was little I assumed Lebanon was just desert, until my mum corrected me.
I used to believe I was American rather than Guatemalan.
Ireland is shit
When I was little, I used to see maps of the world like pic related in my books and think, "Man, the world is pretty huge, and I don't even know what the other side looks like." Yep, I thought that since the map was round, there were more countries on the other side that they never showed for some reason. I still remember when it dawned on me that what I was seeing was it, there was no other side. I took a book about cool animals or something like that with me into the bathroom and I was reading about bats in Europe. The book had a small map telling you were the animals lived, and it was then looking at a map of bat distribution throughout the planet that I figured out that that was it. There was no other side, and the world felt a lot smaller all of a sudden. I must've been in third grade.
>>58379958
You said other countries but my biggest realizations have been about America and that it isn't all that great.
I've also come to realize most Euros are just as bad or worse in some cases.
English are extremely civilized, intelligent, cultured and polite people.
>>58380370
Why did I laugh so hard at this? Had you never seen a world globe or something?
Also, okay, so if we're talking about being stupid kids, I cried all day when I learned that people died as a kid.
>>58380610
I had that exact globe growing up... Holy shit the nostalgia.
>>58380610
Globes are illegal in the U.S. Choking hazard.
I seriously used to think France was located in Africa because of all the black people in their football team
>>58380610
I'd seen a globe, we just never had one at home, so I had never seen one up close in detail.
> I cried all day when I learned that people died as a kid.
When I was three or four, I asked my mom if all people died and she told me only bad people died. I don't remember when I stopped believing that, but the illusion didn't last long.
>>58380469
>how to spot a Berntard: the post
>>58380758
>>58380796
Not even that guy, but
>he fell for the "America is perfect" meme
I don't know why, but my parents tried to bring me up thinking that my country had cities all over like a normal first world country. I remember a few years ago i looked at google earth and looked at the USA and England. When I noticed that it was just a huge desert waste land I was shattered. Took me a while to get over but man it was fucking hard.
>>58380704
>>58380857
Brazil is similar, there's a lot of cities in the coast but the countryside is mostly sparse poor villages with miles of road between them.
when i was little and my parents told me that we came from italy i checked out a book on italy history from the library and thought that everyone there lived like the renaissance still
i was like 6 or 7 years old but still.. kek
That the Germans want to invade us. While the Dutch army was always ready for war and they were the only thing keeping the Germans from invading us.
Use to believe every Japanese was a pervert, truth is they tend to be prudish in public.
>>58381170
Used to believe everyone in Japan watched anime. Then I actually met a Japanese person that was actually a normal person, I knew more about anime than they did and I'm entry-level as fuck.
Japan really sells itself in the weirdest most unrealistic way.
>>58381308
Before 4chan I never even heard of anime.
>>58381389
I didn't know it by the word "anime" but I had seen a lot of them on television because of Latin America being weeaboo as fuck.
i used ti think every one i africa was a monkey.looks like i wan't to far off
>>58380758
>>58380831
>>58381474
>I had seen a lot of them on television because of Latin America being weeaboo as fuck.
holy shit yes
My sister once thought the Chinese spoke Spanish.
>>58381474
We always got Belgian (and to a lesser extend French and Dutch) cartoons on tv. Later American ones.
Never really Japanese ones.
>>58381655
>>58381474
Latin America is the most weeaboo continent on Earth
>>58381834
That's my favorite anime.
>that episode where Don Ramon transforms for the first time
I cry every time ;_;
>>58379958
Taiwan and Mainland China are friends
Switzerland doesn't have a military
>>58380370
Damn. That's really depressing.
>>58381979
Yeah, I remember being a bit sad about it for a while.
>>58381834
>>58381921
Chads talking about dragon ball z or supercampeones (Captain Tsubasa/Flash Kicker)
Almost surreal.
>>58382116
Cowbow bebop, zodiac knights. ranma 1/2 too
I used to think Russia was in a permanent winter, and Sahara was the only desert on earth.
>>58380771
>When I was three or four, I asked my mom if all people died and she told me only bad people died.
You mother is a fucking idiot. The correct thing to do in that situation is to admit to your child that yes, everybody dies but not all hope is lost and that if they do exactly what you say then the two of you may be able to discover a way to conquer death.
>>58382116
Same thing here too. Anime was huge, and still nowadays most people know of it and there are lots of weeaboos
>>58379958
i used to imagine norway as port country with gloomy rainy weather where people fish a lot
>>58382293
Uh, that's literally what it is
![1343009790973[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/lUWOoc2.jpg "1343009790973[1].jpg")
>>58379958
I thought Western Europeans liked their muslim minorities since they all had them.
>>58380796
On the contrary I actually hate socialists
That everyone in russia is poor as fan
>>58379958
Australia being good
I used to think that if you were east of germany, you were China, and that russia was a little country on an iceberg near the north pole.
I thought that every languages in the world could understand eachother except for French
i love you all
I used to believe russia was a threat
>>58382723
me too thanks
>>58379958
That if i got into a western country i would be happy
It's all the same sad shit for us, you just end up drinking yourself dead on prettyer streets
>>58382395
now norway for me is a rich country with feminism and autism
>>58382944
it's a different kind of fishing
>>58382928
>Romania
I don't get it.
I grew up thinking Germany was just a black and white hellhole with ghettos and ruined buildings everywhere.
I thought Greece was near India on the map.
I thought that there are no people east of Polish border.
I used to think traveling to visit other countries would be awesome
it's the same shit everywhere
I thought we were at world peace because when I would watch things about wars I would see cities being demolished and everybody at High Alert.
Little did I know, foreign powers don't fight USA on its home turf.
>>58379958
I thought all Europeans are white.
>>58382994
2 years in London
I used to think Britain was still salty about the Independent war and hated America
I thought Ireland was in front of Serbia
>>58383221 No memes pls
>>58380758
Same for me, but with brazil and colombia, i grew up in argentina, and i was under the idea chileans lived 20 meters away from the sea.
>>58383225
>London
Mate...
That because Alexander the Great came from a Kingdom called Macedonia, that modern Macedonia is the same thing as it.
Also, because I was told in class that Australia was initially a name of a hypothetical most Southern-est land before getting discovered to what we know today of it and getting said name attributed to it, that my teacher meant that Australia still isn't a real place but a hypothetical one, like Atlantis, where people just attribute ideas and fictional settings to as a fill-in (like in Mad Max).
>>58379958
When i was little i believed hungarians were good people
>>58383391
>Australia still isn't a real place but a hypothetical one, like Atlantis, where people just attribute ideas and fictional settings to as a fill-in (like in Mad Max).
>Implying this isn't the truth
Ever been to Australia? No. Because it's fictional.
>>58382116
>Chads talking about dragon ball z or supercampeones
That doesnt count as anime, just like Astroboy and Mazngder Z or Transformers neither does pokemon
>>58379958
Spain is synonymous with Japan.
>>58379958
I used to think people from around the world were polite and civilized. But I've come to realize that the 3rd world is not that far behind of a lot of 1st world countries. Even those countries have serious issues.
>>58383269
>No memes pls
Who's meming?
>>58383548
That doesn't make any sense. Why'd you think that?
>>58383391
>pic
wow
When I was a kid (early 2000s) only 90s-80s movies aired on tv and since those were the only source on American culture I had, I thought everyone there drove old-ass cars for some reason
I thought everyone in places like Africa, Asia and South America was still living in mud huts and didn't have cars/electricity etc.
Moroccans were black and Romanians were gypsies
I thought London and Paris would be cool places to visit.
I thought Czechoslovakia was a thing until probably a couple of years ago.
>>58383774
Funny thing is lots of people still think like this. I honestly think it is like this in some places in Africa, I might be wrong tho.
I used to think the whole world wasn't our bitch
>>58383920
I think it still is in some places in Africa yeah
>>58379958
Should've named this thread /USA/ general, senpai
I only realized Canada was a thing 8 years ago ( I was 14 in English Class)
I thought the UK and England were synonymous
I thought the Irish Isle belonged to Ireland entirely
I thought Austria was a Bundesland as a kid
>>58383370
Shithole to the fullest extent, you don't know depravity until you see a crying 9 y o child pulling on her drunk mother who was lying in a pool of vomit at 1 in the morning, images like that were plenty to see when i left my 400£/month matchbox sized room
>>58384025
What a delightful post, master.
Argentina is white
>>58379958
In Japan live is only Ninja and Samurais.
all jews in argentina are ashkenazim (european), so i thought that israel was a full blond and blue eyed country.
when i went there everybody looked middle eastern, only few blondes
>>58384167
>£400/month
that's actually a reasonable price for London
Yo pensaba que Michocan estaba cerca de la frontera de USA
>>58384395
judÃo puto te voy a hacer jabón
>>58384395
What a liar. Dude there are lots of sephardic jews in Argentina as well, not just ashkenazi. Stop spreading half truths.
>>58384167
What part of London did you live in, Adrian ?
Also thats really cheap. I pay £1,195pcm all inclusive for a studio apartment no bigger than an american's pantry
>>58384417
Not if you had seen the room,the money wasn't a problem it was the depressive world that encircled it, people shooting up on the sidewalk, clubs were full of 15 year old girls high out their minds ,swimming in pools of vomit was the main choice of sport, as much as people loved to fuck in bus stations at night during day no one spoke a word, as if the pretty girl who gave you an ugly stare for sitting next to her on the bus didn't swallow at least two loads the night before, people left with more bottles than food from the shops,if i'd hear a priest talk of Sodoma and Gamora i'd tell him take a week in England or Ireland, might as well see the real thing
>>58380011
oh yeah, smarty pants? *I am
get fukt
>>58384860
jajaja negrito resentido
>>58385135
how are you even saving any money, that's like half of my parents house payment
>>58385056
>What a liar. Dude there are lots of sephardic jews in Argentina as well, not just ashkenazi. Stop spreading half truths.
yeah im exagerating, maybe 10% are sepharadim (syrian i think). not more than that, but i hadn't met anyone before the trip
>>58379958
chinese women are ugly
>>58385351
That's inclusive of bills though and I live there with gf. I know people renting here for much more.
I realise it's throwing money away but we last lived in a flat for which a paki was renting the other room. Absolutely never again.
>>58385254
que no te cruce porque te meto al horno, trolo
>>58385495
yeah i suppose, i am thinking of doing the same with new york city just for a life shake up but throwing away so much of my paycheck for no equity is a hard pill to swallow
People in various western countries, even Canada, were all very different from each other. Had no idea how globalized/Americanized everything had gotten. I even thought they had distinct looks, like noses and eyebrows are different in France from Britain
>>58379958
I used to be huge fan of Aladdin as a kid. I thought that's what the Middle East was actually like and I wouldn't let anyone tell me different.
Also back when I was really little I thought Europe actually had dragons and wizards and magic and stuff in the middle ages. Like I realized Europe probably didn't still have them, but I figured they just all went extinct after the Middle Ages because they got killed by knights. It all made perfect sense when I was a kid.
>>58385535
no te preocupes que ahi en la villa no me vas a encontrar nunca jajaja
>>58385585
The place we were renting before was still £830pcm for a converted two bedroom flat housing five people in total with only one bathroom, AND not even near the centre.
So the higher rent was worth it to at least live with some sanity/dignity.
We are actually looking at buying but this is the kind of thing you can buy:
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-58088384.html
Also I'm racist so it limits the number of places in London we can consider.
>>58385361
Sephardic jews came mainly from spain. No worries, man it happens to the best of us :)
>>58386431
here we call sepharadi to anyone who is not ashkenazi. even they call themselves like that. also the syrian and turkish jews are supposed to be the sepharadim from spain that escaped to middle east so they didn't have to convert. lots of them speak ladino
I thought that Australia is the name of the country and Austria is the name of the continent
when I was little thought that China was capitalism
>>58388605
I thought everyone in china worked in subhuman conditions, doing meth and suffered from malnutrition
>>58379958
I thought the Greeks and Macedonians were civilized
>>58379958
Not really country related, just retarded kid thoughts:
>realistic metallic statues were made by pouring molten metal on people and realistic stone statues were fossils
>the world was in black and white before the photograph was invented and paintings were just how people imagined things would be
I was a dumb kid.
I used to think that Scotland was a country in the left of Norway, Australia a continent and that Latin America was composed of Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Mexico, Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay.
>the USA are the good guys
>>58390677
we are not the good guys but we're the realists option, you still aren't completely grown up
>>58390677
this
I thought Chile was named after the chili pepper. There's not even a difference in Mexican, both are named Chile.
I used to think Africa was where all of our garab went and that the starving black kids on TV ate our garbage so I'd never finish 100% of my meal so that the black kids would have something to eat.
I was a nice kid
i used to think estonia was the same country as ethiopia
>>58380256
I thought your country was just a big ski resort
>>58380256
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>>58390568
Australia IS a continent.
>>58381581
Go sober up Ivan, little Emira needs daddy to take her to school tomorrow.
>>58391586
Are you serious?
was very young at the time in fairness, but didn't realize Americans were all immigrants
just kind of assumed they were always just there! even assumed blacks in the US had basically been there since forever until I saw some TV show that referred to them as 'African-Americans'
also thought Jamaica was a literal holiday resort as opposed to an actual country with a population and a govt and so on
>even asked my dad if they had schools there
I now realize the less you know about Jamaica, the better
>>58391985
He's right
>>58391586
>>58392148
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oceania
western europe is white
>>58391985
It is though. it's a country and a continent. In latin america we call it oceania, but elsewhere that continent is also known as australia.
Lmao when I was a little kid I thought that basque country was somewhere in the middle east, and that Portugal was part of Spain.
>>58392229
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_(continent)
>>58385831
rekt
So both are equally valid? There's no sense.
>>58379958
I used to think Indians shat in toilets... silly me!
>>58392297
>mfw https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zealandia_%28continent%29
>>58383920
>>58383774
Some people in Africa and South America DO live in mud huts without electricity, cars and alike.
Probably same happens in Asia.
And that doesn't mean they worse or inferior than us as people.
>>58392594
This clearly doesn't matter anymore
just give every country its own continent
I used to think that the english were really evil people, but turns out they're really cool and chill.
I thought literally all Australians were like Steve Irwin and Crocodile Dundee.
>>58379958
>America actually landing on the moon
>America was first world
>America being white
I thought germans weren't turkish. Went there in 07' and liked it a lot. It was munich
hahaha people confusing continental shelf with continental geopolitical division
>>58385783
They are. You can't tell the difference in someones face depending where they came from? Germans tend to have square heads while slavs have round heads. We tend to have weak jaws.
>>58379958
All Americans are fat and stupid.
All Canadians are smart and respectful people.
>>58385797
>Also back when I was really little I thought Europe actually had dragons and wizards and magic and stuff in the middle ages. Like I realized Europe probably didn't still have them, but I figured they just all went extinct after the Middle Ages because they got killed by knights. It all made perfect sense when I was a kid.
This is so awesomely sweet.
>>58392713
Hahah your government will do anything to brainwash it's population into making 'Britian' the problem instead of the country itself.
I thought egyptians were like the aincient ones, not arabs or muslims
>>58385797
Little did he know it's not dragons ravaging Europe, but mudslimes and shitskins.
>>58383512
>anime doesn't count as anime
I thought Americans were human, turns out they are actually a close relative of livestock animals.
>>58393272
Yeah, the other day at college my class was talking about the islands and I said that getting them back now is stupid because we wouldn't be able to afford maintaining them and that they were just used as propaganda and everyone got mad as fuck. I would dare to compare it do denying the holocaust in germany.
>New Zealand is a territory/part of Australia.
>Aussies come from Austria.
>Kazakhstan doesn't exist and the name was a joke about the region's other names.
>China is only rice fields, no cities mountains, deserts, etc
>Sydney and London are both in France
>France and Spain are swapped geographically
>Ireland are all sheep shaggers like Scotland, NZ
>Kiwi is just a fruit and the animal is mythical. Tbf the animal looks unrealistic AF
That's pretty much it for things I thought were facts for a long time that aren't.
>>58380067
delet this
>>58383774
>implying
>>58393550
jesus
When I was really little I thought England was part of the United States because they spoke English
>>58393550
>Tbf the animal looks unrealistic AF
I kek'd
>>58393550
>american """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""education""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
>>58384493
Write English you filth monkey.
I assumed all Latin Americans countries were shit. I was partially wrong
>>58393260
You were right, friend
>>58393550
Oh and when I was really young
>faeries come from Greenland
>>58393717
My early education was a smallish rural school. All of these were cleared up in later urban high school education.
>>58385140
Pacat ca nu toti gandesc ca tine. Nu stiu de ce are lumea impresia ca in alte tari alearga cainii cu corvirgi in coada. Are minusurile ei, corect, dar ce tara nu are probleme? Sincer sa fiu, cand vad postari precum a ta, sunt bucuros ca am ramas aici. Nu a fost usor, dar simt ca in ultimii 3-4 ani, parca parca a mai inceput sa se miste ceva pe aici.
>>58392111
This reminds me, I think that at one point, since people always talked about how America wasn't discovered until after the middle ages, I thought that nobody lived there until that point. I remember people deriding America for only having a 200 year long history and wondering if the landmass had literally only existed or been above the surface of the ocean for 200 years, too.
I thought Canadians were annoying faggots. Turns out I was right.
>>58379958
The USA is a 1st world country
>>58394507
>faeries come from Greenland
I bet you were a really cool kid.
I'd hang out with you/10
I thought Spanish people laughed funny after reading someone write jajajajajajaja.
>>58396614
now i obviously realize the j is an h sound
>>58396614
the same happens to us when we read the brazillian huehuehue
>>58397174
but thats just a dumb internet laugh
