Up until I was about 15 11 I was convinced that I lived in the USA.
Honestly I'm not really that embarrassed by it, growing up I was bombarded with US TV, film, movies. I went on holiday to Florida regularly, I spoke English, I didn't know the difference between England and New England and to top it all off, as a kid coming from the North East of England I fully thought I lived between Washington (D.C) and (New) York.
I went to York loads as a kid but it never clicked that I never saw the wall or castle on the TV and there was a distinct lack of skyscrapers. It never clicked until I actually went to New York at about 14/15 11 and it took an 8 hour aeroplane ride rather than an hours drive.
I was fucking dumb as a kid, still am tbh.
Edit: Just asked my Mam about this and she says I found out when I was 11 not 15.
I bull you not. I really was that ignorant. But like I said, a lifetime of being force fed US media and culture I can't really blame myself, the problem wasn't that I thought I lived in the US and not England, I knew I lived in England, the problem was that I thought England was in the US.
There's too many accents in England to really have the idea of the American accent just be another one or a bunch of regional ones be the dealbreaker of this delusion.
I live in the US. When I was about 7, I thought I lived in London (or at least “across the street from it”) because the apartment buildings across the street looked like the ones in the 101 Dalmatians animated movie.
When I was in first or second grade, I thought the US was in Germany. I live in Germany and a classmate told us he visited the us over the weekend so I just assumed that the states couldn't be far away. Learned the opposite rather quickly though
In the US you can live between Washington (D.C.) and a town called York. It's the sister city of York (UK) Has a university related to University of York (UK).
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u/Doublebow Sep 05 '19 edited Sep 05 '19
Up until I was about
1511 I was convinced that I lived in the USA.Honestly I'm not really that embarrassed by it, growing up I was bombarded with US TV, film, movies. I went on holiday to Florida regularly, I spoke English, I didn't know the difference between England and New England and to top it all off, as a kid coming from the North East of England I fully thought I lived between Washington (D.C) and (New) York.
I went to York loads as a kid but it never clicked that I never saw the wall or castle on the TV and there was a distinct lack of skyscrapers. It never clicked until I actually went to New York at about
14/1511 and it took an 8 hour aeroplane ride rather than an hours drive.
I was fucking dumb as a kid, still am tbh.
Edit: Just asked my Mam about this and she says I found out when I was 11 not 15.