--- title: "What is a common myth about your country that is 100% false but many people still believe in it?" url: https://www.kickassfacts.com/what-is-a-common-myth-about-your-country-that-is-100-false-but-many-people-still-believe-in-it/ date: 2021-04-22 modified: 2021-04-22 lang: en author: "jazz" description: "We asked our regular contributors through e-mail What is a common myth about your country that is 100% false but many people still believe in it? We got many interesting..." categories: - "AskReaders" - "Specials" image: https://www.kickassfacts.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/canada-ice.jpg word_count: 1094 --- # What is a common myth about your country that is 100% false but many people still believe in it? We asked our regular contributors through e-mail **What is a common myth about your country that is 100% false but many people still believe in it?** We got many interesting responses. Here are some of them. We have just copied and pasted their responses, not editing them in any way. ![](https://www.kickassfacts.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Australia.jpg) 1. That we say "shrimp on the barbie", was an ad campaign to appeal to Americans, it was the most successful tourism campaign still to this day, but literally, no one in Australia says that. - Fireos2W 2. Mexico is a desert. - slackfrop 3. Not exactly a myth but a decent amount of people still think that Czechoslovakia still exists. We split apart in 1993... We are the Czech Republic, not Czechoslovakia anymore. - foodwithnoob 4. That the Irish are the biggest drunks in the world, completely false and mean as we're only the second biggest drinker in the world but we hope to get first place next year. - LegandaryPQ 5. Dracula is often depicted as living in Transylvania. While he was imprisoned there for a while, he was actually the ruler of Wallachia (another historic Romanian province that neighbors Transylvania to the south). As for the rumor that we are vampires, I neither confirm nor deny this statement. - NextStatementTextFix ![](https://www.kickassfacts.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/russia.jpg) 6. In Russia, we're all sad, there's no sun, there's always snow. - XxBigBoss42xX 7. I’ve never seen a mime in Paris. - simon_0404 8. Everyone plays soccer and knows how to dance the samba; there are monkeys in the streets; the capital is Rio de Janeiro. - sadcagias 9. Romania. Many people believe we have vampires, but in my 700 years of living here, I haven't even seen one. I asked my mates back in the castle and they also haven't seen any, and they've been around for longer than I. - zyypoboys 10. All Germans have some secret knowledge of the Second / World War II they would love to share. I always found that interesting when I lived in London and esp English people 40+ would ask me of some first-hand experience of the War (keep in mind that not even my parents were born at that time) ?!?! The fact we know the same as you do from History classes etc. - slazer2k ![](https://www.kickassfacts.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/igloos.jpg) 11. That we still live in igloos. - kimlinglings 12. Australian here. Everyone thinks it's as dangerous as fuck, that spiders, drop bears, snakes, feral cats and dogs will rip ya heart out every time you step out the door. The truth is that unless you act like a halfwit, poke said snake/spider with ya finger then you'll be fine. Battle echidna, dervish spiders, saltwater crocodiles, and drop bears don't live in suburbia; you need to go into the bush to even see a lizard which usually promptly fucks off the moment a stone footed oompah Loompa waddles past. - Cletus_Spooge_Pant 13. That we roam around with wild animals like lions and rhinos, have no cities, and thus live in huts, and that we're all poor and malnourished. - Infamous_Ad_2921 14. I had to tell my little cousins in the UK that No, unfortunately, we don't ride Kangaroos to school and work every day! - Eldylto 15. Iceland was not named as part of some conspiracy to keep folks away from a good thing. The name comes from the fact that early settlers arrived during summer and then suffered horrible losses of livestock and people once winter hit and icebergs were seen filling the fjords. It was more of a warning than anything, that this place sucked. Greenland on the other hand was probably named as such to make it sound more hospitable. - MorrisonsLamet ![](https://www.kickassfacts.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Scotland.jpg) 16. Everyone in Scotland is ginger and wears a kilt. - pengu 17. We don't have humor and live to work. - Wichtel_Lotte 18. If someone says "isn't Ireland part of the UK tho" one more time... - miseroisin 19. Everyone drinks maple syrup, moose everywhere, and saying "sorry" all the time. - Ugandan_Chungas 20. That everyone still harbors resentment against Americans. Or the French. Or the Japanese. Or.. (you get the point). I've actually never met anyone here who held such grudges. It's pretty inspiring, actually. Probably I can learn a lot from that. - Saigonauction ![](https://www.kickassfacts.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/canada-ice.jpg) 21. When I started dating my now wife (who is from Oklahoma), she informed me that her friends and family were convinced that Canadians didn't have ice or toilet paper. They wanted her to ask me about it apparently because they were confused by that. I had never laughed so hard. I mean... it's Canada... we are ice 70% of the year basically. - SirensDeadlySong 22. Welsh people shag sheep. Temptation is there but the static shock wouldn't be worth it. - TheGrizzlyBen 23. That Leprechauns are real. Oh, and we are a nation of alcoholics. (This actually may be true). - Orient1989 24. People generally assume that when you're from Belgium, you are French-speaking. While a big part of the country is Francophone, the majority population is Flemish (Dutch-speaking). I blame this on mostly 3 factors: - People mainly visiting Brussels (which is bilingual, but has a Francophone majority) - Americans mostly having been stationed in the French-speaking part in WWII - Hercule Poirot - AlexTheGreatBelgian 25. I'm an American but I lived in Egypt for a while. It's incredible that more than one American who wasn't a child asked me if I lived in a pyramid. - BP_Oil_Chill ![](https://www.kickassfacts.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/nigeria.jpg) 26. Nigeria. That everyone here is into scamming people lmao. - crzybrzy 27. A lot of people confuse different European countries. For Switzerland, you're often Swedish. I'd imagine it's similar for Belgium/Belarus, Slovakia/Slovenia... - shiny-spleen 28. That it is always hot in Australia. It's not. - dragonfly-001 29. Finland doesn't exist. - Lawwi 30. People think British people are either stiff Upper lip public schoolboys or cockney brick layers/football hooligans. There's a whole world of people in between! Some of us don't even like football. One of my friends DOESNT EVEN DRINK TEA! Not sure why she's my friend, to be honest. - farlos75