Adichie: The Danger Of A Single Story

Single stories are told everyday, affecting many people. Most of these stories affect people negatively. These stories are one view of one specific beings, race, belief and in some cases culture. They result in stereotypes and often hate toward that person or group of people, leading to hate and ignorance. It is of a human’s nature to judge first by what they see and secondly by what they come to realize. An example being when Adichie talks about the Americans and their blonde hair and blues eyes, then when she came to america for college she realizes American diversity was greater than what she had expected.The three articles relate and happen to be about being a colored person and inequality amongst all. Adichie’s essay “Danger of a single story” is about single stories. Many people communicate with stories. Adichie explains that only having one viewpoint or having little knowledge on a subject can affect everyone. The person who has only been told one story over and over creates a bias and the one who’s “story” is being told is stereotyped which often leads to discrimination. For example, Adichie talks about a roommate she had in college that had only ever known of African as a foreign speaking continent and was extremely shocked when Adiche opened her mouth and had spoken perfect English. The ignorance …show more content…
As a result of these average ideas, those single stories cause discrimination amongst all. This results in hate, feud, ignorance and prejudice ways. In the 3 cases shown, race is a the big single story. Most stereotypes of colored men and women are rather negative and affect one’s everyday life. However, in any and all cases it can be found that people are quick to judge what is on the outside rather than take the time to first gather information on what is on the inside, including personality and hobby