After listening to The Danger of a Single Story it made me think in a lot of different ways. It kind of through me off guard about stereotypical behavior. It made me think a lot about my grandparents who I considered “narrow minded” they were just like the people Chimmanda Adichie described when they she was staying in America. They already felt bad for just because they believed the things they heard on the media or what they think she should have acted like. I am thankful that things are changing in terms of people not being so narrow minded and judgemental. I believe we are the first era of humans that actually care about the person rather then the preconceived idea of their personality. Our world is not perfect, but I believe we have came along way in the last twenty years. The most powerful statement in my opinion of the whole story was that, “If you give someone only one story that is what they become.” This is so true. Kids are influenced by so many different things in the world from family, friends, media that you only have a short time to tell them about what life really is until they corrupted from the world around them. I have students whose parents are either gang members or drug addicts. I have a duty to tell them that this not reality and I can give them hope for a better world they have not even seen yet.
Chimamanda Adichie: The Danger of a Single Story. Perf. Chimamanda Adichie. Youtube.com. N.p., 21 Aug. 2001. Web. 21 Aug. 2015.
Chimamanda Adichie: The Danger of a Single Story. Perf. Chimamanda Adichie. Youtube.com. N.p., 21 Aug. 2001. Web. 21 Aug. 2015.