Chimamanda Assumptions

All Canadians like hockey, everyone in Alaska lives in igloos, and all homeless people are lazy and drug addicts. Assumptions make people think of people as just one thing, when they really aren’t; they are much more. Two famous authors, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Sherman Alexie clearly state how single stories block people's perspective, by showing them just one side of the story. They use their own experiences to show how assumptions relate to stereotypes. Even I made an assumption of my soccer team. I thought of them as a lot better than me, which intimidated me into thinking that I wouldn’t make a team at a club soccer tryout. Chimamanda Adichie, a women that grew up in Nigeria, made many single stories in her life and became a successful writer, as told in her ted talk The Danger of a Single Story. She explained that assumptions make people think about other people …show more content…
I didn’t sleep well the night before because I was so worried that everyone there was going to be much better than me. With doubts about my abilities, I showed up the on the day of the tryout, got registered, and then made my way down to the field. Once the tryout started I saw some really good players and then I saw many players just like me who, had never played club soccer. I was so focused on the skill of the players that I didn’t think about them as anything else. I didn't even bother to get to know them, because I was so focused on this assumption. It never came to my mind that they might of had the same single story of me. At the tryout I tried my best, and when the coa ch called he told me that I had made the team. I was excited and proud of what I had accomplished. I didn't realize that my self doubt about my abilities was a single story which affected how I approached tryouts. This assumptions could have impacted my comradery with players on the team if I let