Summary Of The Danger Of A Single Story By Adichie
Do you know what people around the world think about you? Chimamanda Adichie in her Ted Talk talks about how people have a tendency to stigmatize other people, and countries just by how they are pictured worldwide. She refers to this as “The Dangers of a Single Story” where she expound different stories which are repeated over and over. These stories are about how people judge without knowing the true story. Adichie's article clearly addresses the misconception of what other people think related to outside cultures, and how they make a single story only for what they have seen or listen about other cultures.
Every story has a beginning. Adichie’s article talks about how she started noticing people had their own stereotypical idea about others. …show more content…
To really know a story about someone else we have to see from all points of view in order to understand it better. As Adichie’s explained “the ability not to just tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person” (3). We always have to know more of a story about someone because if we just let ourselves be greeted by what a single story tells we will always have only one point of view. In addition, Adichie demonstrate how we can generalize people or cultures by judging them by only one event. Adichie says “So that is how to create a single story, show a person as one thing, as only one thing, over and over again, and that is what they become” (3). We can create a single story about other cultures or people if we just listen to a only one story of them, as we let ourselves be carried away by the stereotypes that others create, that makes us unsighted the truth. Creating a stereotype about someone or some culture does not mean that it is not quite true but the problem is that people get carried away by just that stereotype and do not seek to see more of it. Adichie later says, “And the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete”(4).we can not let ourselves be carried away by a single stereotype since this convinces us to believe that it is the only way that a person or culture can be judged. Always guide you
Every story has a beginning. Adichie’s article talks about how she started noticing people had their own stereotypical idea about others. …show more content…
To really know a story about someone else we have to see from all points of view in order to understand it better. As Adichie’s explained “the ability not to just tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person” (3). We always have to know more of a story about someone because if we just let ourselves be greeted by what a single story tells we will always have only one point of view. In addition, Adichie demonstrate how we can generalize people or cultures by judging them by only one event. Adichie says “So that is how to create a single story, show a person as one thing, as only one thing, over and over again, and that is what they become” (3). We can create a single story about other cultures or people if we just listen to a only one story of them, as we let ourselves be carried away by the stereotypes that others create, that makes us unsighted the truth. Creating a stereotype about someone or some culture does not mean that it is not quite true but the problem is that people get carried away by just that stereotype and do not seek to see more of it. Adichie later says, “And the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete”(4).we can not let ourselves be carried away by a single stereotype since this convinces us to believe that it is the only way that a person or culture can be judged. Always guide you