In her TED talk “The Danger of a single Story,” Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s argues that you can’t judge a group of individuals based on what you hear in the media or after a single account. Once you spend time to get to know that group of people, you will see that what the media says about them is completely different from how they actually are. Unfortunately, Adichie fell victim to the single story of Africa and how it is portrayed in the American media. In her TED talk, Adichie gives a couple past experience where she has been victimized, but the worst of them was when she was 19 and first started to attend a university in the U.S. She tells us her roommate asked, “where I had learned to speak English so well, and was confused
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To many, Mexican immigrants are a group of people who are shrouded in a single story that they are only good at landscaping and are constantly committing crimes. This is especially the case in western media where they are portrayed as monsters and are only covered when something awful happens. One such example I found online was a an article that described how Mexico is portrayed in cartoons and how offensively incorrect they are. They constantly portray Mexico as a nation that is barren and dry and covered in dried up dirt. This then causes kids to grow up thinking that Mexico is a place that isn’t fun and as a place where poverty is everywhere. Yet this is only one type of single story Mexican immigrants are faced with, the other one is the idea that they are all a bunch of gang bangers and criminals. One thing that is quite obvious to notice is that the media only covers the crimes and killings that the Mexican immigrants did. The media fails to notice that many Mexican immigrants are great human beings and are super polite and friendly. It’s not until you actually meet Mexican immigrants that you realize they are an amazing group of people who are always fun to be around and are all just as normal as anyone else in the
To many, Mexican immigrants are a group of people who are shrouded in a single story that they are only good at landscaping and are constantly committing crimes. This is especially the case in western media where they are portrayed as monsters and are only covered when something awful happens. One such example I found online was a an article that described how Mexico is portrayed in cartoons and how offensively incorrect they are. They constantly portray Mexico as a nation that is barren and dry and covered in dried up dirt. This then causes kids to grow up thinking that Mexico is a place that isn’t fun and as a place where poverty is everywhere. Yet this is only one type of single story Mexican immigrants are faced with, the other one is the idea that they are all a bunch of gang bangers and criminals. One thing that is quite obvious to notice is that the media only covers the crimes and killings that the Mexican immigrants did. The media fails to notice that many Mexican immigrants are great human beings and are super polite and friendly. It’s not until you actually meet Mexican immigrants that you realize they are an amazing group of people who are always fun to be around and are all just as normal as anyone else in the