The “one perspective”/single story is generally the perspective we as humans adapt to our own. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie describes this in her speech “TED Talk, The danger of the single story”(2009) as seeing the society through the eyes of the definite story. The idea that Adichie presents regarding the definite story could be explained as an influence from literature,
with the image of the Ayatollah, causing some confusion. When 9/11 occurred, the fear of Sikhs began to grow, they had become mistaken for being associates of al-Qaeda because of their turbans. In Chimamanda Adichie’s TED Talk, The Danger of a Single Story, she says, “The consequence of the single story is this: It robs people of dignity. It makes our
contemplation. Shut off the turbulence around you, and question yourself what you stand for and what sort of representation you want to set for others. Classify your morals and integrity. Self-reflection is all about conscious analysis, enabling you to single out changes and progress that could be constructed. Systematically reflecting the self is something we should all be accustomed to doing day to day. What did you actually do today? How did you lead people? What are you honored of? If you lived today
and what the illness is; thus, learning more about a culture will help the provider avoid “single story” assumptions. “Single-stories” means labeling a person and not looking at the person as a hole. Chimamanda describes the dangers of a “single story,” and how it can limit our ability to be open to another culture or idea (Adichie, 2009). If “The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down” is used as a single story, then we as readers risk how we will see the Hmong culture; the reader could look at how
The Danger of the Single Story If someone say, “Africa was a place of incomprehensible people, fighting senseless wars, dying of poverty and AIDS, unable to speak for themselves and waiting to be saved by a kind, white foreigner”, most people will think that is right. However, that was not true. In some parts of Africa, there is the rich and no war, the same as the United States such as Nigeria. The reason of made people have wrong impression about something is they just heard a single story. The
word choice, grammar, punctuation, and more. “Danger of a Single Story” helped me develop my writing skills. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie said, “Now, I loved those American and British books I read. They stirred my imagination. They opened up new worlds for me. But the unintended consequence was that I did not know that people like me could exist in literature. So what the discovery of African writers did for me was this: It saved me from having a single story of what books are.” This speech helped improve