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The danger of a single story

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    TED-ED The danger of a single story - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie discussion
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  • Provide three examples of "single stories" from her entire talk.
    The foreign children's book she read as a kid, Fide and his family's life, her roommate's perception of African people, her own prejudiced views of Mexicans
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  • According to Adichie, how is a "single story" created? (9:25)
    Show a people as only one thing, over and over again, and that's what they become.
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  • According to Adichie, what are the dangers of a "single story"?
    How stories are told, who, how and when they tell them is dependant on power, and power is the ability to make it the definitive story of a person
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  • What is the purpose of her introduction? (1:43)
    It demonstrates how impressionable and vulnerable we are in the face of a story, especially as children.
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  • How does Adichie end her talk?
    By saying that, when we reject the single story, and realize that there's never a single story, about any place, we regain a kind of paradise.
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