Stereotypes In Chimamanda Adichie's Speech

In Chimamanda Adichie’s speech, a writer from Nigeria, elaborates that the single stories told by the media, peers, and family creates stereotypes and changes views on that person, place, or thing being mentioned, and that the single story should not define that being or thing entirely. At the beginning of the speech, Adichie stated as she grew up, there was a boy from a destitute family that had helped around the household. Adichie’s mother informed her daughter that the family was in poverty; for that Adichie had only looked upon them as poor, nothing else. Upon meeting the boy’s family, she learned they had woven beautiful baskets and that there was plenty more to them, rather than being indigent, thus falling for the single story. When