# Childhood prejudices (or just plain stupid thoughts) you can't get rid of..

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**Created:** [June 10, 2013, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-prejudices-or-just-plain-stupid-thoughts-you-cant-get-rid-of/660608 "2013-06-10T05:42:07Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 12, 2013, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-prejudices-or-just-plain-stupid-thoughts-you-cant-get-rid-of/660608/21 "2013-06-12T22:38:04Z")

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> [@MegaBee](#):
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> Australia is nothing but the outback, Russia is Red Square surrounded by frozen tundra, Africa is all veldt, etc. Basically, the shortcuts that televison shows and movies use to establish areas that aren’t the USA are firmly wedged into my brain.

I still sometimes picture Florida as a giant theme park. I know it’s wrong, even when I was a kid my family visited places other than Orlando when we went there, but that imagine is still in the back up my mind. I’ll also automatically refer to a dog as “he” until I find out otherwise, and a cat as “she”. I still have a vague sense of unease in cemeteries (saw **Return of the Living Dead** as a kid courtesy of big brother, and find toddler sized dolls creepy ( **Child’s Play**. :smack: I also have a default imagine of women being comply blank “down there” courtesy of Linnea Quigley and the Pioneer plaque. :o

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