In the TED talk “Danger of a Single Story” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the author tells us a life experience of hers, never be stereotyped to any culture or people by only a “ single story”. In this article, Adichie shows us a couple of funny examples, like her mother tells her neighbor very poor but does not tell her they also work hard, her classmate still defines the author’s life as tribal, and the author believes and desperate for ginger beer due to the character who comes from her reading book, drink ginger beer every day. Those stereotypes happen to our lives every day. We get information from TikTok and Youtube more than real news currently. Most of the time, we only watch what we want to watch, video makers usually film what the people are interested in. As time passes, we all become stereotypes easily.
Before I lived in America, I thought New York was an international city, it should be super fancy and neat everywhere. But after I came here, I found it’s not what I thought about, homeless are everywhere and garbage is on the road, danger happens every day, etc. I learned that what I read from books or watch from videos never can identify a person or a country. If the “single story” is what you only know about this person or the country, being respectful is the best way to do in the communication. 
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Hi Yuan! I like your summary and your view of YouTube and TikTok. There’re some video creators who try to create misleading videos to change our mind. Their video could indeed generate stereotypes to people who watched it. However, I believe there still are plenty of creators willingly share the truth of the incident without prejudice.
I understand the housing and safety condition of New York may not be what we thought before. New York City based on the books or videos mostly are exaggerative. I agree with your conclusion. Being respectful is important while we are accepting new cultures from other countries and people.
**exggerative –> exaggerated**
I agree with you Yuan because you mention about how the author’s mom explains to Adichie that in Nigeria people are poor which don’t have the needs that others got. Also how the author talks about the people in her story how her point of view shows the person she was and how she face the challenges during her life. This leads to how you talk about we all get information from social media which nowadays that’s where everyone gets there questions answer or what happens on daily basis. I agree about how people use to watch tv to hear about news as well as what happens but now it’s like turning on TV’s is only use to watch movies. When hearing about New York you would expect that it’s a place where people are elegant. But in cases not all in New York City is where it’s elegant. Overall we all come from different backgrounds where we are proud of who are. As well as what we see ourselves each day passing the streets of New York.