In the article “The Danger of a Single Story” written
by Chimamanda Adichie, the idea of a singular story about a group of people
That is harmful to society as whole because it commit unjust stereotypes
and warps people’s idea of reality. Adichie explained, in the presentation that
the single story of Africa as it was known by her roommate during college
caused her to unfairly associate Adichie with ideas of cultural history.
However, the author also clearly faults herself for also being influenced by
“The Single Story” shows that she made mistakes like many others. Due to
the strong media coverage on Mexican immigration she “had bought into the
single story” automatically associating all Mexicans with immigration. These
stories emphasize how stereotypes are formed due to incomplete
information. But, one story should not define a group of people. Therefore,
Adichie says she will not insist that it is those negative stories that make her
who she is, and in my opinion it is because it then overlooks all the other
incidents and happier stories that also contributed to her present just one
single narrative can create stereotypes and the problem of this is not that
they are untrue but incomplete.
