What do you think about Africans? Poor place, food shortage, disease or something else? If so, you may condition to “a Single Story.” In the talk “The Danger of a Single Story”, the Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie indicated, “Our lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories.” Adichie tells authentic stories that she has found when people hear a single story about another person or country. The single story could make people limit their viewpoint and have a single narrative or a simple stereotype about some complex cultures, person, and other things.
“A Single Story” creates stereotypes and gives people fixed impressions of things. When I came to American in my high school year, I saw many people have “a Single Story” about Asians. Many of them think all Asian students do well in math and have strict parents who push them harder to get A. They feel surprised when an Asian student gets a bad grade on a math test or say their parents don’t care their grade. However, not every Asian is the same. There are fourth-eight countries in Asia, includes
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When Adichie went to college, her American roommate had many “Single Story” about African and shocked when met Adichie. She thought Africans couldn’t speak English so well; she thought Africans only listened “tribal music”; she thought Africans didn’t know how to use a stove. She had a single story of Africans, “There was no possibility of Africans being similar to her in any way, no possibility of feelings more complex than pity, no possibility of a connection as human equals.” The reason her American roommate thought like these, it might because of the news, the books, and other people’s thoughts that she received made her condition to “a Single Story” about Africans. The “Single Story” denied all the characters that person owns except what the “Single story” think what characters that person