The Ted Talk

There are many forms people on this planet, varying from different colored eyes, skin color, height, weight, hairstyles, clothes we wear, and different names. Everyone is an individual and has their own way of how think and the way they interpret the world around them. We also project people a certain by what is said about them by people, the way the media portrays them, or simply by the way they look like on the outside. This is a thing called stereotyping or labeling of a person. In the TED Talk, which I very much enjoyed watching and listening to, Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche, a woman from Nigeria, who was living a middle-class life as a child, who is a writer and tells stories, talks about what a “single story” is and how everyone has one, about them and others. She gives examples from what she had thought about this boy that she met named Fide, being told that his family was poor and had nothing. But what her mother told her was obviously a single story. They took a visit to Fide’s tribe and noticed that Fide’s brother had made these beautiful baskets made from dyed raffia. Chimamanda had a single story about Fide’s family and later years later she then realized about it. She also gave an example about her roommate thought that she listens to African tribal music and doesn’t know how to use a stove. But Chimamanda said that her roommate would be surprised that she listens to Mariah Carey and knows how to use a stove. It was like her roommate based that from the color of her skin and that where she was from made her what her roommate thought that she was. Her talk gave me a realization that I have had single stories about other people that I know, and many people have had them of me, but when listening to what she had to say gave me a sense of how to portray people from now on and to not read books by their covers. I enjoyed what Chimamanda had to say about what the single story was and how it is relatable to everyone. I didn’t understand at first what a single story but when she explained it and gave examples, I knew exactly what she was talking about. It made sense to me in all ways of what a single story is …show more content…
We ordered and then after got our food and sat down. One of them offered away their salsa that they got on the side because they said they don’t like spicy stuff on her food. I was honestly shocked because I “thought” that Mexican people like to make they’re food spicy because of all of what I have seen in the store. Usually the spicy sauces are Mexican style. But because I thought that they liked the spiciness from the salsa on their food was me reading a book by its cover. All in all, Chimamanda’s talk was one of the most interesting and mind changing things I have read and heard in a while. It made me think back to when I have had single stories about me and from me to other people. All I really have to say now is that looks and what the media says maybe deceiving, but never ever take a book and judge it by its