MISCONCEPTIONS!!!

Hey Guys!!!
So I live in South Africa and a lot of the things that I know about other countries, I learn from the Media.
So I've heard of people going to other countries and how the people in those countries have asked them:
Why are you white if you're from South Africa???!!
Do you have lions in your backyard?
Do you ride on elephants to school?
Have you ever gotten HIV?
Why are you not wearing animal skins?
( My personal favourite, this was said to a South African) Hey, I know a guy from Ghana, I think you might know him too!!
Hahaaaa!!!
So I was wondering if there are people out there who have heard of weird things about other countres/their own and would like to set the record straight!
Hahhaaaa!!

Well, here in the United States, we all ride horse and buggies to get to where we are going, but I've heard there is an invention called the automobile that allows people to travel without a horse. Have you heard anything about that?

LOL! No way!!!
Seriously though, EVERYONE knows that the US has cars and all these inventions.
When some foreigners from 1st world countries come HERE, they are SO SURPRISED that we have cars and skyscrapers tooooo!!!

Hahaha. I went to South Africa a couple years ago.
When I was in Australia it was right after Columbine. A school threw us a dance and decorated it with dead bodies because they thought it would make it feel more like home for us.

I live in the mountains of California. And what you hear about everyone knowing how to snowboard is true. But we do not have inbred hillbillies. Some people LOOK like it, but aren't. Haha. We call them Wal-Mart shoppers

Do you have telephones?

Telephones?????
Eerrrhhh... Sounds familiar...
Hmmm... Is that a new type of smartphone?
We have iPhones, Blackberries, Androids, Nokias, Samsungs... But I don't know about Telephones[ -__-]
Hmmm... I will reserach it on the Internet which is on the Computer which is miraculously powererd by electricity that we actually have

I live in California the ''land of fruits and nuts''...a total miscon....umm, nevermind.

I live in the mountains of California. And what you hear about everyone knowing how to snowboard is true. But we do not have inbred hillbillies. Some people LOOK like it, but aren't. Haha. We call them Wal-Mart shoppers

ive been asked if i have a pet kangaroo (no i dont)

Hey Guys!!!
So I live in South Africa and a lot of the things that I know about other countries, I learn from the Media.
So I've heard of people going to other countries and how the people in those countries have asked them:
Why are you white if you're from South Africa???!!
Do you have lions in your backyard?
Do you ride on elephants to school?
Have you ever gotten HIV?
Why are you not wearing animal skins?
( My personal favourite, this was said to a South African) Hey, I know a guy from Ghana, I think you might know him too!!
Hahaaaa!!!
So I was wondering if there are people out there who have heard of weird things about other countres/their own and would like to set the record straight!
Hahhaaaa!!

I flew into Singapore not many years ago, expecting to find a jungle. I am still amazed at all the concrete and steel I found there, and no jungle. Instead the stewardess told me that if I was bringing in dope I may be jailed or worse.

Someone just asked if they dared hitch hike in California, or would they be shot by all our outlaws. Would all you Californians please put your guns away?