This TED talk is about how one single story can change your entire view on someone or something and make it hard to see it/them as anything different. Chimamanda Adichi is a well respected author who has experienced this "single story" theory first hand. Adichi uses pathos to argue her point by telling personal stories of how the single story phenomenon has effected her life. She first talks about how when she was younger all the books she would read would have white characters so that is how she began to write her stories because that is how she thought all books where written. Later she goes onto talk about the way her roommate talked to and treated her just because she knew she was from Africa. However, something I think Adichi did well was not blame everyone else for stereotyping, she owned up to it herself as well. This made her audience find her more relatable and believable. One of her main points in this argument is that not one person has just ONE single story; people are made up of many stories and by knowing just one really means you know nothing about who that person really is. Adichi says that " the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete" (Adichi). This speech relates to the global dream because if people took time to truly learn about other people and other cultures there would no longer be stereotyping. If we lived in a world with no stereotyping we would live with a lot less hate and a lot more understanding. I enjoyed this TED talk a lot because I think this topic is very important to our society and I learned things to help me not have this single story way of thinking such as nearly 5,000 Nigerians will apply to one job vacancy in Nigeria. We often hear one thing about something and automatically believe it or think that is the only thing of importance that pertains to that subject. If we can stop the "single story" we can regain a community globally. This speech relates to Dian Sawyers "My reality" documentary because in that piece it talks about how people with minimum wage jobs are often thought of as slackers or uneducated. But, people only know a single story of these works and do not know what goes on in their everyday life. In the documentary it says that " when the economy grows the higher class gets the money" (Sawyer), this makes life very difficult to minimum wage workers but the res of the world can't see that.
Cultural diversity
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