TED_Danger_of_a_Single_Story_Chimamanda_Adichie.pdf
The danger of a single story (creation of stereotypes)
Ever wondered why the story your friend had told you about a person or an object had such an immense impact (especially if the story had been demonstrated in a resentful way towards a person or incomplete for both the person and an object)?
If not, let’s take another real life example, such as a simple school curriculum illustrating an emperor, who probably invaded the land of your ancestors at a time, in a way that would offend the current generation of the emperor (well we can imagine westerners conversing about Amir Timur as someone a “monster” while the man is a hero to the nation of ours). In that case, both sides must have been informed in totally different ways, without discovering the other side of the “moon”.
Without further to do, since if I explain all you have to discover, you might not benefit it much, start reading the transcript given above and jump to the original speech in here, by Chimamanda Adichie
Ever wondered why the story your friend had told you about a person or an object had such an immense impact (especially if the story had been demonstrated in a resentful way towards a person or incomplete for both the person and an object)?
If not, let’s take another real life example, such as a simple school curriculum illustrating an emperor, who probably invaded the land of your ancestors at a time, in a way that would offend the current generation of the emperor (well we can imagine westerners conversing about Amir Timur as someone a “monster” while the man is a hero to the nation of ours). In that case, both sides must have been informed in totally different ways, without discovering the other side of the “moon”.
Without further to do, since if I explain all you have to discover, you might not benefit it much, start reading the transcript given above and jump to the original speech in here, by Chimamanda Adichie