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Summary Of The Danger Of A 2009 Ted Talk

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The “Danger of a Single Story”, a 2009 TED Talk by Chimamanda Adichie, a young Nigerian author, begins by telling us a story from her childhood of what she would write about. She talked about how her stories were similar to the foreign stories she would read. She thought that only white skinned children with blue eyes could be in stories, until she found African stories with characters similar to her. That’s when she realized that people like her can be in stories. She argues that inherent in the power of stories, is a danger—the danger of only knowing one story about a group. “The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only
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