This is part two of my misinterpretations of a variety of concepts as a child.\u00a0\u00a0To me, these misunderstandings make the best of stories and show a peek at your perspective as a kid<\/p>\n
2.\u00a0 China is Part of the U.S.<\/strong><\/p>\n Before I fully understood geography, I believed, deep down, that China was included in the U.S.\u00a0 In my 7-year old mind, the whole country had just broke off from wherever it was and floated swiftly to America, crashing violently into the side.\u00a0 This is how I reasoned all of the problems in America had arrived from poverty to international affairs.<\/p>\n In my defense,\u00a0 my mother had told me that Wal-Mart was China’s creation.\u00a0 She also told me that the reason all of my favorite local stores and markets went out of business was because Wal-Mart had all of those things so no one needed to come and buy from those small stores.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 This made me angry.<\/p>\n In fact, I was very angry.\u00a0 I was so angry that I vowed to never purposely step foot in Wal-Mart again.\u00a0 Ever.\u00a0 Why couldn’t people even of poverty, realize that supporting your country would increase the wealth of the country and possibly them?\u00a0 (I never said I was an highly educated seven-year old)<\/p>\n Soon, Mom had to get groceries and most of the markets and small stores had been shut down, so, we had to go to Wal-Mart.<\/p>\n I still didn’t understand why.<\/p>\n I mean Wal-Mart is just a dumb place in general.\u00a0 Like,\u00a0 what does ‘Wal-Mart’ even mean?<\/p>\n Still, I stepped out of the car and soon decided that not going into Wal-Mart was quite unrealistic considering the many times Mom had left me.\u00a0 \u00a0Thus, I declared to myself that, when I was grown, I’d never go to Wal-Mart for anything.<\/p>\n Anywho, that was only a fragment of my thought process when my sister quizzed me on geography.<\/p>\n “How many states does America include?”<\/p>\n “50!\u00a0 Wait, no.\u00a0 51!\u00a0 52…?”<\/p>\n “Um…What?”<\/p>\n “51.”<\/p>\n “Are you sure?”<\/p>\n “Duh,” I sang mockingly.<\/p>\n “Where do you get 51?”<\/p>\n “My brain,” I stated, curious as to why she asked.\u00a0 “Colorado, Connecticut, Kentucky, China…”<\/p>\n My sister looked at me with a blank face that seemed to barely hold straight a smile before bursting into laughter so strong that she was knocked backwards onto the floor.<\/p>\n “What!?\u00a0 It is!”<\/p>\n “Oh my gosh! You’re so dumb!”<\/p>\n “Um…no.”<\/p>\n “Um…yes.”<\/p>\n “It is!”<\/p>\n This went on until my sister walked by and we asked her.\u00a0 China is not a state.\u00a0 \u00a0I repeat.\u00a0 China is not a state, no matter how many Wal-Marts there are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is part two of my misinterpretations of a variety of concepts as a child.\u00a0\u00a0To me, these misunderstandings make the best of stories and show a peek at your perspective as a kid 2.\u00a0 China is Part of the U.S. Before I fully understood geography, I believed, deep down, that China was included in the … Continue reading “Cogs of a Child’s Mind (a series)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1230"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1475,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230\/revisions\/1475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}