TED talk #8

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, begins by telling us a story about what she would write about as a child. She speaks less in a lecture style but coming off more like shes only there to tell a story. She would write stories that were similar to the foreign stories she would read which contained white skinned children with blue eyes, nothing like her. Until she found African stories is when she realized that people like her could be in stories. If we hear or read stories about a part of the world we tend to perceive that part of the world as the stories describe those places. Those stories we receive make us feel certain emotions, emotions like pity, towards the people that live in those places. The consequence of the single story about a person, place, or issue. A single story also robs people of dignity and emphasizes how different people are. By engaging with all the stories of a person, place, or issue, the trap of a single story can be avoided. I agree that the single story makes the differences in people stand out and the single story is an incomplete description. People around the whole need to learn to see past the single story, or first impression, or what they hear about someone or something keeping an open mind. To not pass judgement to people in the professional world or in school; either way to not put one above another based on a single story.