The Danger Of A Single Story Summary

Chimamanda Adichie the Danger of a Single Story Everyone has their own belief, which influence by concepts in the society. It causes that people will have strong personal values of other things, based on what they learn and think. According to Chimamanda Adichie the Danger of a Single Story, it is unhelpful to see the world with single mindset because people will give them a limitation. Sometimes, that thing is totally different from what we think. When people see that, it is hard for them to accept, it has strong impact with our concepts. The author used her personal experience of reading books. White people and African had different characters, which white people were respectful and African were rude. The book made all people looked forward to becoming a white people. However, African were not that bad and the author did not show the real situation at that time. It is irresponsible for a kind of culture and makes people have wrong mindsets. Also, she uses her example of the interaction with her roommates. Based on her roommate’s impression on Nigeria, Adichie disagreed with her points. However, she could not challenge her because she got all
A single story is also stand for stereotype, which people have wrong concepts to something. They believe the concept, even they do not see it personally. When we look back history events, many movements are caused by stereotype, such as the movement of women rights. At that period, women could not have equal status as men because society gave them standard role, which was housewife. Doing housework and taking care of children was women’ responsibilities. However, women had capable to compete with men. We can see lots of successful women currently. If everyone focuses on old concepts and just copy ideas from book, the world will not have improvements. Human should break the old concepts and have more