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The passage was a part of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s speech, “The Danger of a Single Story.” The speech, which was spoken in 2009 at a TED conference, called attention to how hearing only one story about a certain person or place, or letting stereotypes lead our judgement of a person or place, can lead to confusion and ignorance. I heard about the speech about two years ago, but only recently did I spend the time to listen to it. I decided to choose this speech because of how true it is to my life and the lives of everyone around me. We live in a world where the media tells us things that we almost automatically believe. We use these stories, which may not even be true, to judge other people. This could cause a rift of understanding between
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