Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Ted Talk “The Danger of a Single Story” and Marc Silver’s article “If You Shouldn’t Call It the Third World, What Should You Call It?”, have very prevalent concerns about the predisposition of stereotypes and labeling. The issue at hand is not just in particular to one region. This has plagued the world for thousands of years, whether it pertains to race and inequality or the welfare and economic stability of a country. Both Adichie’s Ted talk and Silvers article talk about similar ideas, Adichie speaks about how “impressionable and vulnerable we are in the face of a story as children”, and how we can perceive certain races and inequalities as one “single story” based off one negative aspect of the country.(poverty,
