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 Analytical essay

In “The Danger of a single story” the author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, claims that the

single story creates stereotypes and how society can judge one another based on prejudices. She

states this phenomenon was featured through racial assumptions. Adichie was an African lady,

born and raised in middle class Nigerian family who battled with racial generalization and

figured out what to look like at them in another light. Adichie details her involvement in single

stories and how they neglect to address group precisely. Adichie shows her crowd, journalists,

and fellow authors, that associating people with a solitary story, or a solitary generalization, is

not sufficient to depict an individual and every one of their encounters.

The central argument in her talk was the negative influences that “single story” can have

and recognize the foundation of these stories. In TED talk, Adichie was presenting that solitary

story regularly begin from simple misunderstanding or one’s absence of information on others.

she discusses the adverse consequences of people just learning one stereotypical perspective

about another nation or culture and this incomplete information can have a malicious intent to

suppress different gatherings of individual because of bias. Individuals, particularly in their

childhood, are "susceptible and vulnerable" with regards to single stories (Adichie, 2009)

Adichie shares some essential guides to talk about why generalizations are made. Reflecting

her regular day to day existence, she reviews a period where her college roommate had a "default

position" of "well-meaning pity" towards her because of the misinterpretation that everybody

from Africa comes from a poor, struggling background, people from Africa would not speak

English well and their choice of music would be tribal. With this account, Adichie is

demonstrating to pursuers that generalizations are not expected to hurt since they come from
ignorance, yet the continuation of generations accepting generalizations is the thing that is

unsafe. Individuals should know about how “single stories create stereotype and the problem

with stereotype is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story

become the only story.” (Adichie, 2009) The meaning of this statement is that a few parts of

generalizations are valid, yet they do not address individuals as an aggregate. At the point when

Adichie’s roommate seen that she was from Nigeria, she consequently connected her to tribal

music. Tribal melody is a character of culture of Nigeria, but it does not address all Nigerians.

From a close reading of the text “The danger of a single story”, Adichie also tackle the

impact of political and social force on stories. Power spreads a story, yet additionally makes its

thoughts persevere. Utilizing ability to manipulate our comprehension of others can be

confirmed by Adichie’s trip to Mexico, where she understood Mexicans were not the harmful

Americans Western media had depicted them to be. By admitting her own blunders, she leads

audience members in challenging themselves to think about their personal accountability.

Adichie places her discourse basically expressing that "to create a single story, show a

people as one thing, as only one thing, over and over again, and that is what they become”

(Adichie, 2009). Her conclusion reacts to these misguided judgments by emphasizing the

significance of spreading diverse stories contrary to focusing on only one. It additionally

addresses the way that we are never too old to even think about getting socially mindful and start

to become familiar with the numerous accounts and stories of others, and that is the solitary way

we will fix the issue and carry on with more comprehensive lives.
 Reference

 Adichie, C.N. (2009, July). The Danger of a single story (Video). TED Conferences.

https://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_ngozi_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story?

language=en