Never mind that I knew.

What are the danger of a single story. These stories may be positive or negative but when we reduce complex humans or cultures down to one dimension much is lost. Whether positive or negative you could be setting unreal expectations for someone or overly crediting them for something because you had negative preconceptions about them based on a stereotype. Placing a single story to someone is super dangerous.

In 2009 the Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie gave a fabulous TED talk called The Danger of a Single StoryIt was about what happens when complex human beings and situations are. The risk of the single story the one perspective is that it can lead us to default assumptions conclusions and decisions that may be incomplete and may lead to misunderstanding. Chimamanda Adichie passionately and clearly teaches us the danger of a single story in her 2009 TED Talk.

This can lead to misunderstanding and can prevent us from fully grasping the complexity and nuance of a situation. When she arrived in Mexico she. This is a powerful talk in which Adichie shares the danger of a single story warning that if we only hear a single story about a person country or issue we risk great misunderstanding.

You can find it here. Home 3 Lessons From Chimamanda Ngozi Adichies The Danger of a Single Story. In this single story there was no possibility of Africans being similar to her in any way no possibility of feelings more complex than pity no possibility of a connection as human equals.

On the one hand having a single story is bad because it makes you stereotype others but it also it makes you stereotype stories reducing their power. They make one story become the only story These are Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie words in her TED talk about the danger of single story. The Single Story is not a new concept.

I must say that before I went to the US I didnt consciously identify as African. In respect to this what does a single story mean. My roommate had a single story of Africa.