The Danger of a Single Story is a Ted Talk that was made by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and she is from Nigeria. As a young girl, she was always told about the superior white people. In all of her stories that she read and wrote, the main character was a white girl with blonde hair. She realized that none of the characters related to herself and that she was portrayed as a completely different human in the “real world”. As she got older, she continued her education at a school that is not within Africa. When she got there, her roommate asked her a variety of questions regarding what she had thought about Africa. “Can you play me some of your tribe music?”, the roommate asks Adichie, when in reality the music she had with her was by Mariah Carey.
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Cuba and the United States had a bad past with a lot of tension, which makes most Americans believe that overall Latin America is much lower than us. When I first thought about common stereotypes in Latin America, I was thinking that the countries are confined to the hispanic and spanish populations, and now that I have learned that Latin America is multicultural and has many Europeans, Africans, and Indians (“An Overview of Latin America”), I think that Latin America overall is very open and welcoming to different variations of people. In class we learned about the colonization of the Latin American countries, and how the influence that changes the way that the countries are today. When I first thought about the government in Latin America, I thought that it was a democratic government, and now that I have learned about the political pendulum and how Latin America changed constantly between a dictatorship and a democratic government during the 1900s (“Latin America’s Political Pendulum”), I realize how the Cold War and the United States affected Latin …show more content…
As most developing continents should be improving within these categories, we are told that Africa is not and can actually be declining. When I first thought about the women’s rights within the governments of Africa, I thought that Africa greatly lacked it due the history they have had with the Apartheid and other segregation issues, and after the in class example where we placed the countries in order from highest to smallest amount of women within government, and I realize that Rwanda is much higher than any other country with the number of women in congress. After the Rwandan Genocide, the constitution that they made left at least 30% of their parliament empty for women, initially leaving 44 out of 80 seats (“In Rwanda, Reconciliation is Hard Won” by James Verini). Initially, I thought that Africa consisted of people that had many diseases including AIDS and Ebola, and that their economy is constantly decreasing. The Ted Talk, “Africa’s Next Boom” by Charles Robertson talks about how life in Africa is actually increasing now more than ever. He says how the overall life expectancy in Africa has increased one year for the past three years of the decade and that HIV/ AIDS rates have decreased by twenty seven percent which means that 6,000 people are now AIDS free. In fact, he
Cuba and the United States had a bad past with a lot of tension, which makes most Americans believe that overall Latin America is much lower than us. When I first thought about common stereotypes in Latin America, I was thinking that the countries are confined to the hispanic and spanish populations, and now that I have learned that Latin America is multicultural and has many Europeans, Africans, and Indians (“An Overview of Latin America”), I think that Latin America overall is very open and welcoming to different variations of people. In class we learned about the colonization of the Latin American countries, and how the influence that changes the way that the countries are today. When I first thought about the government in Latin America, I thought that it was a democratic government, and now that I have learned about the political pendulum and how Latin America changed constantly between a dictatorship and a democratic government during the 1900s (“Latin America’s Political Pendulum”), I realize how the Cold War and the United States affected Latin …show more content…
As most developing continents should be improving within these categories, we are told that Africa is not and can actually be declining. When I first thought about the women’s rights within the governments of Africa, I thought that Africa greatly lacked it due the history they have had with the Apartheid and other segregation issues, and after the in class example where we placed the countries in order from highest to smallest amount of women within government, and I realize that Rwanda is much higher than any other country with the number of women in congress. After the Rwandan Genocide, the constitution that they made left at least 30% of their parliament empty for women, initially leaving 44 out of 80 seats (“In Rwanda, Reconciliation is Hard Won” by James Verini). Initially, I thought that Africa consisted of people that had many diseases including AIDS and Ebola, and that their economy is constantly decreasing. The Ted Talk, “Africa’s Next Boom” by Charles Robertson talks about how life in Africa is actually increasing now more than ever. He says how the overall life expectancy in Africa has increased one year for the past three years of the decade and that HIV/ AIDS rates have decreased by twenty seven percent which means that 6,000 people are now AIDS free. In fact, he