She argues that inherent in the power of stories is a dangerthe danger of only knowing one story about a group.

Whats the danger of a single story. She argues that inherent in the power of stories is a dangerthe danger of only knowing one story about a group. She continues with another example of the danger of a single story. The speaker says that we must reject the single story and that stories matter because they have the power to break or create dignity.

My mother was an administrator. Chimamanda Adichie passionately and clearly teaches us the danger of a single story in her 2009 TED Talk. The single story creates stereotypes and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue but that they are incomplete.

Emphatic language is used in it saved me by making it sound like a life or death situation making the stakes much higher and. They make one story become the only story. No possibility of a connection as human equals.

The single story creates stereotypes and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story. The Danger of a Single Story.

She was born in Nigeria and she attended universities in both Nigeria and the United States. 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. I must say that before I went to the US.

When she arrived in Mexico she. It emphasizes how we are different rather than how we are similar. Writer Chimamanda Adichie warns that if we hear only a single story about another person we risk a critical misunderstanding.