Chimamanda Adichie's The Danger Of A Single Story

More and more people are coming to understand that there are stories that tell only one side. In the TED talk from the speaker Chimamanda Adichie she tells “The Danger of a Single Story”. Her talk was a glimpse into her childhood. Chimamanda Adichie explains that her entire childhood, the stories she read and came to know she couldn`t relate to. The characters had blue eyes, blonde hair and played in the snow, these were foreign experiences that she never had. Another single side of a story she heard was about the houseboy Fide. The facts given that they were poor, not well off educationally, Adichie assumed they did not have anything going for them in life. One day visiting she saw a basket that Fide brother made, it was beautiful. Then Adichie …show more content…
This essay was written in 1987 it`s a bit older as information about disabilities, mental and physical disabilities are more known in 2018. It still shows the world still only views physically seen things as a disability majority of the time. The danger of this single story can shock people that do not realize their own ignorance. The essay “Disability” explains that commercials, TV shows, and movies do not show many people with disabilities. Even in the current year 2018, we are still playing catch up to show the world that a person with a disability is still a “normal person”. I use that phrase as it thrown out there like an injury, or a physical incapability makes us have an instant “Pity me” sign on our back. Media does show people in wheelchairs, or things they are born with more often but even those sometimes can skew people’s idea of a disability. People want to take interest in these things but they also go about it the wrong way. Going out of your way to help anyone with a disability with a simple task that person does daily does infuriate them. Majority of the time they want you to acknowledge them no different from someone else without a