Examples Of Single Stories

A Single Story Sherona Edmonson Kennesaw State University

A single story can be defined as the idea that a person my have about a place, their culture and what builds up that person’s identity. An individual who has small knowledge on other environment out of their normal culture and daily lives develops single stories. A single story can be developed from various sources for example reading books of the same style, watching television shows and through popular movies for example Shottas where I am frequently asked isn’t that really how Jamaica is. Single stories are similar as the term stereotype. Single stories being the only story that the individual may know about a person’s culture, believing that there is no difference in identities. This can impact leadership in various ways. Single stories
We discovered we had what is called a single story, after talking about our childhoods and what it was like growing up on separate parts of the world. I grew up in a loving home with my mother being a businesswoman and my father being a mechanic as a middle class family living the normal comfortable life. Some of the single stories that people have about me are quite interesting and mind blowing. These single stories are Jamaica is a land of paradise, economically low, a land that is open to everyone smoking marijuana where it is legalized with no government ruling and we use animals and boats as our means of transportation. People with their single stories usually believe Jamaica being a third world country, it is a country that is located in the continent of Africa and families are poor and live in the wild as animals. Single stories as such have been created over years where it saddens me to know that people actually think as