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stereobreadsticks
Feb 28, 2008

Quincyh posted:

My biggest facepalm is one I get pretty often!

Student: Teacher, where you from?
Me: South Africa.
Student: But... *long pause* ...you're white.

Sometimes, I don't even get "but" - I just get "No." There are no white people in Africa.

On a related subject I once had a student tell me that her parents were taking her to America for vacation but "I don't want to go to America because in America have a black face and I'm scare of a black face."

I also got the "Korean food is so much more varied than foreign food" one all the time.

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stereobreadsticks
Feb 28, 2008
Not really anything in particular that they actually said but I had to confiscate a soccer ball from my Turkish first graders because they were playing with it in class. I didn't really have anywhere big enough to put it out of their reach so I put it on the chair behind the teachers desk. They apparently didn't see this and it blew their minds that I had made their soccer ball disappear. They were asking me how I did it for the rest of the class.

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