In the Ted Talk "The Danger of a Single Story," Chimamanda Adichie describes the danger of the single story. Telling of how one story can be the symbol for an entire culture. When arriving to her dorm in America, Chimamanda was met with a surprise by her roommate, She says, "My roommate was shocked by me, by how well my english was" (Chimamanda). Her roommate who is shocked by her, this gave Chimamanda a rude awakening on how the rest of the world may view her. This single perception that her roommate had of Chimamanda may be the only one she has about Africans. Her publishers perception of an African book is not the story that Chimamanda tells. Her publisher says that, "My book failed to be authentically African" (Chimamanda). Because