Summary Of The Danger Of A Single Story By Adichie

The two videos are about dehumanization and racism. “The African-American Wallet” exchange parodies how the response of many police officers who shot unarmed black people is that they thought they were carrying a gun. The people in this video take this to the logical extreme and go around African-American neighbourhoods replacing everyone’s wallets with ones of a different colour. “The Danger of a Single Story” is a TED talk in which Chimamanda Adichie recounts how we perceive the world through stories, and how letting one story dominate the perception of a people can have disastrous consequences.
I, for one, agree with all of their points. Firstly, as hilarious as “The African-American Wallet Exchange” is, it does raise a grim point about police brutality. Using techniques such as exaggeration, black comedy, and logical endpoints, the video effectively paints the police in a negative light in a Horatian manner, whether they were lying about their mistake or not. The joke about the fake bullet holes was particularly dark.
Similarly, “The Danger of a Single Story” is a great talk about how we can see aspects of the world wrong if we only hear a single story. Adichie talks about her experiences writing stories as a child from Nigeria who only knew English stories. She then goes over how people tend to assume that the stories
The dominance of this story pushes other voices out of the discussion, harming the conversation people can have. We should not let one story dominate the view of a group of people, or indeed of anything. Ignoring the fact that doing so can cause your view to be incomplete, especially if said story is bad, I think that it can just be plain