The Danger Of Single Story By Chimamanda Adichie
Have you ever falsely judged something, someone, or a group, through the lens of a single story? That single story that you heard about someone or something is actually you are stereotyping, criticizing and analyzing. According to the article “The Danger of Single Story” by Chimamanda Adichie, there are many dangers of accepting a single story. These dangers include robbing people of dignity, making our recognition of our equal humanity difficult & emphasizing how we are different rather than how we are similar. Without knowing the full story about someone or something, you are allowing that single story to be your truth. That is what makes believing a single-story a dangerous game to play. A single-story can rob people of their dignity.
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In the article, Adichie put herself in the shoes of her roommate by thinking she had not grown up in Nigeria, and if all she knew about Africa were from popular images. She says that even she would think Africa was a place of beautiful landscapes, beautiful animals, and incomprehensible people, fighting senseless wars, dying of poverty and AIDS, unable to speak for themselves and waiting to be saved by a kind, white foreigner. Adichie writes,”What if we had an African television network that broadcast diverse African stories all over the world? What the Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe calls “a balance of stories.” and “What if my roommate knew about contemporary Nigerian music, talented people singing in English and Pidgin, and Igbo and Yoruba and Ijo, mixing influences from Jay-Z to Fela to Bob Marley to their Grandfathers?” You many think Africa is not equal to the U.S however they have similar. This shows you that one humankind is not better then there …show more content…
Next time you decide to create or tell a single-story think about the consequences that can come with. The three consequences you should think about you robbing people of their dignity, making recognition of equal humanity difficult & emphasizing how we are different rather than how we are similar. “The Danger of Single Story” by Chimamanda Adichie, gives many examples of people creating and telling a single story even herself. This teaches us that we should know the full story about someone or something, before allowing that single story to be our
In the article, Adichie put herself in the shoes of her roommate by thinking she had not grown up in Nigeria, and if all she knew about Africa were from popular images. She says that even she would think Africa was a place of beautiful landscapes, beautiful animals, and incomprehensible people, fighting senseless wars, dying of poverty and AIDS, unable to speak for themselves and waiting to be saved by a kind, white foreigner. Adichie writes,”What if we had an African television network that broadcast diverse African stories all over the world? What the Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe calls “a balance of stories.” and “What if my roommate knew about contemporary Nigerian music, talented people singing in English and Pidgin, and Igbo and Yoruba and Ijo, mixing influences from Jay-Z to Fela to Bob Marley to their Grandfathers?” You many think Africa is not equal to the U.S however they have similar. This shows you that one humankind is not better then there …show more content…
Next time you decide to create or tell a single-story think about the consequences that can come with. The three consequences you should think about you robbing people of their dignity, making recognition of equal humanity difficult & emphasizing how we are different rather than how we are similar. “The Danger of Single Story” by Chimamanda Adichie, gives many examples of people creating and telling a single story even herself. This teaches us that we should know the full story about someone or something, before allowing that single story to be our