TED Talk: The Danger Of A Single Story

Certainly, we know that everything in the world has two side with itself, there are either negative or positive and is not only black and white. Undoubtedly, what we should do is to look for both sides of the idea and compare it to come up with our own idea.Here is the TED talk called “The Danger Of A Single Story” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, This is a very interesting speech, it’s about how does her life affected by to hear a single side of the idea and how to find out the point to change herself. Likewise, the TED talk shows the dangerous of the single story can effect people in a negative way and the importance of balancing the story. Overall, there are several kinds of effects causing negative ways to hear a single story from another person …show more content…
The result is what people had told is right even that is wrong, and then lose yourself the ability to become a follower. Also, when you have any dangerous you will respond slowly all the time, because you don’t have your ideas and never think about it. In the TED Talk, the Adichie has been told us about an experience she had before. she has a neighborhood, who is called Fide. Adichie’s mother always sent yams, rice, and cloth to his family. Then, when Adichie is not finishing her food. Her mother will use some similar reasons to educate her, such as Fide’s family is very poor, So you can not waste food. In one day, Adichie went to Fide’s house. Fide’s mother shows her a beautifully patterned basket made of dyed raffia. In that moment, Adichie feels so surprised of what is FIde's mother shows it to her. The reason is she has never thought about Fide’s family could work hard for better life. In this case, it shows the loose judgment can cause a problem to hear something from one person at all the time. In this time, Adichie is growing up and learn a lot of things. Adichie has always heard her mother said that Fide's family condition was very poor and never think that people can change their life by work hard. Therefore, it causes her considers that “Poor” is everything about Fide’s family condition. The result is she lost the judgment ability to know the truth. Similarly, I have …show more content…
Then, you will do it actively as a tool control by the power. As the Adichie told in the TED talk “power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person. “It means that power can not alway tell people story, also can assimilate you to the story. Adichie has the experiment about have brainwashing from the power and feel shame on herself. In a few years ago, she was to hear a single story by the political power about the Mexicans. In that time, the political climate was tense in Unity State and had the argument about immigration.The result is Adichie just hears about the bad side of Mexican. In fact, when she visited the Mexico, the view she has of the Mexican people is totally different from the Image that she has before. The Mexicans are live very well and always can see the happy smiling in their face. This shows political power have the strong brainwashing ability to the people. The people have heard a single story again and again from one country. then, it will cause people gets brainwashed from the story. In fact, there is a similar power in the surrounding environment that affects us. The power is not just included political power, also included the advertisement power. Usually, we saw some new paper’s advertisement had been