What Is The Danger of A Single Story? What Did You Learn From The Video? Why Are Different Stories Important?

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What is the danger of a single story? What did you learn from the video?

Why are different stories important?

Chimamanda Adichie, a Nigerian writer, makes an excellent narrative about how


telling a single story has created stereotypes about African societies or even
Mexicans migrating to the United States, that do not reflect reality and even make it
completely unknown. Telling a single story of things, a single point of view, a single
idea of a society or people, leads us to create stereotypes of them that do not
reflect reality and can even cause exclusion or marginalization of certain social
groups.
I learned from the video, to understand why before we talk about different
societies, countries or people, we need to know beyond the history they often tell
us. Perhaps we could look for more perspectives that enrich our knowledge and
bring us closer to the reality of things.With her characteristic love for stories,
Chimamanda Adichie makes a call to reject unique stories. An emotional
discourse, With rotundity and warmth, the author claims the richness of the infinity
of stories that make us.
To conclude, Chimamanda Adichie gives us a lecture with this talk, which makes
so much sense, emphasizes with his personal experiences, the importance of
knowing the different stories; as a way to destroy stereotypes and prejudices. This
story tells us about the danger that unique stories have: they are stories that have
prevailed in our culture and that have normalized, generating stereotypes that do
not correspond to reality. Stereotypes/prejudices condition our whole life, and are
responsible for the existence of many social movements whose objective is to seek
social equality.

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