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The Danger of a Single Story
The video “The Danger of a Single Story” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie featured on the TEDTalks show in 2009 and explored the dangers associated with relying on a single story. When individuals continually hear a story from one perspective, the people end up making stereotypical conclusions about other people (“The Danger of a Single Story”). It is wrong to make judgments of the people based on the one-sided story since it is subject to bias.
Culturally, some people are taken as inferior due to their way of life. Adichie says that Europeans take Africans as inferior as a result of the lifestyle they live for instance not wearing modern clothes. However, this is wrong since there are better things in Africa and not just the retrogressive cultures. On the other hand, Adichie only read books written by Europeans eventually culminating in a belief that her way of life was inferior and not worth writing (“The Danger of a Single Story”). In this case, her initial writings had to conform to the customs held in the books she was reading. One story thus forced him to take the western stories with high esteem eventually viewing her culture as inferior and adopting the whites in writing.
When Adichie went to study in the United States, her white roommate, her professor, and other white groups took themselves as higher in the hierarchy of beings. They only knew their superiority and had nothing to do with other people. They were thus perplexed on learning that, Adichie was an African yet writing book rivaling those of the whites.

The one idea story of the hierarchy thus led to their long-held beliefs of other people’s inferiority (“The Danger of a Single Story”). The Europeans identify themselves as higher in the hierarchy of beings segregating the other people especially Africans. The same case happens to Africans who due to lack of networks and interactions isolate themselves and view the Europeans as superior. Both the Europeans and Africans thus believe on their own story and identify with those they are similar to creating stereotypes.
In conclusion, many people today made the wrong deductions as a result of hearing a story from one side. African, in particular, is the most significant casualty where only the negative perception concerning them is brought into the limelight (“The Danger of a Single Story”). The good things they have do not receive audience leading to their stereotyping by the other people.
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TEDTalks. “The Danger Of A Single Story”. 2009, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9Ihs241zeg&feature=youtu.be. Accessed 25 Apr 2018.