Cultural Stereotypes By Adichie Summary

Many people all around the world are being stereotyped. The Nigerian novelist, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, shows that if a person is repetitively shown only one thing, they become it. She also points out that even though adults can view a certain culture from many different sources, children must listen to their parents and teachers. Adichie's primary culture that she is showing is African culture. Since she is from Nigeria, a country in Africa, she knows plenty about her culture; when she viewed her country from a non-African's point of view, she realized that stereotypes are affecting the way a person thinks about Africa. One of her most important points in the passage is the existence of diversity in the world: urban, rural; rich, poor, middle; diversity in countries.
Cultural stereotypes create sympathy rather than empathy because popular pictures show people that cultures are bad, people only hear a little about a culture, and people only hear stories about one culture. Plenty of graphics people portray Africa as a country with cultures that are below our standards, convincing people to feel pity for it. Also, quite a few people do not completely hear the truth, and will misunderstand a culture. People only know about stereotypes about one culture, and they wouldn't be stuck to one culture. Cultural stereotypes create sympathy rather than empathy because graphics show that African culture isn't good, people do not truly realize what is factual, and people only know stereotypes about one