The Danger Of A Single Story Analysis

The Danger of a Single Story Recap
In the touching, but humorous video, “The Danger of a Single Story”, told by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, She begins with a calm, but humorous tone as she proceeds to tell her listeners exactly where she came from. She explains how she grew up in a middle class home and how she had a very happy childhood. Filled with love, laughter and joy. The moment she speaks of where exactly she had come from, is the moment the tables turn, and people like many of you and myself, begin to judge. Nigeria is where Adichie came from. Like many other people in this world, your mind begins to race and wonder. How did she grow up “middle class” in a place like that? Many think Africa is full of nothing but “poor and starving
A funny, but true fact, numerous people think Africa is a Country. Plenty do not know English is their official language. When Adichie started writing and came to the United States, she too had many myths she had to bust for more Americans. Many of the books Adichie read in Africa were all about “Blonde hair, blue eyed children, which ate apples and played in the snow. Then when the sun came out, they talked about how nice it was. Living in Africa, Adichie had no reason to talk about the weather”. (Adichie) When Adichie wrote, she than began to realize that there could be people like her with “Skin the color of chocolate, and their hair as kinky as hers”(Adichie) in the books she began to create. Adichie did not want to have a single story herself about books. Although Adichie teaches us about the danger of a single story, she too had one herself about Mexico. She thought it was full of drug lords and people in tents. It was not until Adichie took a trip there herself to realize that she had failed in not judging a place just because of what Adichie was
Her roommate did not think, “Adichie could use a stove, then when she asked her to hear some of tribal music, her roommate then became disappointed when Adichie pulled out her Mariah Carey cd. (Adichie) Ultimately, when Adichie began publishing her writings, she had to continue to prove to people that Africa, was not just a single story. Adichie also had many more obstacles to overcome as a writer as well. Adichie's publisher, after he read her book, even tried to tell Adichie it “Was not an authentic African story, because her Africans were educated and could drive cars.”(Adichie) He too, had a single story. The criticism did not stop there, Shorty after one of her readings, Adichie had a young American woman come to her one day after she had read one of Adichie's books and stated, “It is a shame African men are such abusers in their families”. Adichie then replied with mild attitude, “I just read a book the other day American Psycho. It is such a shame young Americans are all such serial killers. Adichie brings such bright light to what plenty of people leave in the dark. She makes individuals even like myself, realize that there is so much more truth to what is not told. Adichie makes you honestly see, “what you read is not the story of