The Danger Of A Single Story By Chimamanda Adichie

One afternoon, you decide to go shopping at your local grocery store to pick up an average amount of snacks and beverages for a party you’ll be hosting later in the week. As you’re sauntering through the aisles, you come across the liters of Coca-Cola right next to the “off-brand” store cola that looks exactly the same. The calorie content is consistent, the grams of sugar are about right, and even tasting both separately would result in no difference—but you know better. Of course, you’ll pick the Coca-Cola because everybody loves Coke more than the “off-brand ripoff.” Your cart continues to pile up: Oreos over store cookies-and-cream, Goldfish instead of Cheddar Whale Crackers, and Ben & Jerry’s Vanilla Ice Cream before the regular, random …show more content…
This unfortunately tackles with what real life has stereotyped and formed us as human beings. The Danger of a Single Story by Chimamanda Adichie speaks the truth of how a single story masks the real reputation of a full one. Let’s be honest here: how many people would actually consider the ingredient label of both sodas rather than soaring through the aisle and grabbing the Coca-Cola without question? In reality, what makes us who we are as people is the label we bring forth to the face of the world. We’re aware that these labels don’t defined us, but coming from the past background where it does has spoiled our minds into the idea that took away uniqueness. We’ve come to learn that who we are isn’t what we stand for but what makes us interesting to others when it is you writing your story being the only one picking up the pen. With that in mind, this is the time to bring out who you …show more content…
For what’s known, having the chance to meet people leads into more relationships and a healthier life with trustworthy people. Though whenever that new person arises into your life, everyone has the tendency to judge by just a glance of head to toe. What they wear, the color of their skin, the emotion they convey, the way they talk: all aspects of a person taken in to decide whether or not they are likable in the first place. The tendency to judge: the first three Jenga blocks of the tower. The definition of people has never been about the individual but preferably the interesting story worth believing about the individual. Quoting Adichie, “The consequence of the single story is this: It robs people of dignity. It makes our recognition of our equal humanity difficult. It emphasizes how we are different rather than how we are similar.” When you look at someone for the first time and decide to judge, you strip them away of the story they’re meaning to tell you—the story you vandalized with wretched