Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's The Danger Of A Single Story

In Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's talk "The Danger of a Single Story" she gave many examples of why stereotyping is not a good thing to do. The main reason Adichie gave us was the usage of a single story. This is because when you're told a single story you only hear one person's side of the story. Using her own experiences to exploit the use of multiple stories, Adichie is giving us reasons to stop judging other people and countries from the first thing we are told about them. From the time we were kids to the present day we read or are told stories with many different scenarios in them. Whether they were fairytales, fictions, nonfictions, or just plain everyday news. We take these in and use what we know to make our view of the world. When Adichie was growing up she had to …show more content…
In Adichie's talk she talks about her college roommate and how she doesn’t think Adichie could be the same as her just because she is from Africa. As her roommate questions her whole life she assumed that everything Adichie was able to do wasn't being done correctly. It wasn’t just Adichie's roommate that did this it was the rest of America too. Another person who questioned her life was one of Adichie's professors as he read her novel. The professor said the novel was not "authentically African" all because the people in her story lived a life like people do in America. To help support the purpose of stopping first view judging Adichie's friend and teacher have shown us that through many years of life and hearing stories about Africa there are still many facts that we do not know about the people of this world. Not only the people in other countries, but it also means the one close to us. Meaning if you meet someone new don’t assume they're the same as your other friends. Everybody is different in their own ways, learn something new from listening to them other than just speaking your