{"id":2000,"date":"2023-10-30T21:32:59","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T01:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/your-eng101-fall23\/?p=2000"},"modified":"2023-10-30T21:33:04","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T01:33:04","slug":"conversation-2-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/your-eng101-fall23\/2023\/10\/30\/conversation-2-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Conversation 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>In the article \u201cThe Danger of a Single Story\u201d written\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>by Chimamanda Adichie, the idea of a singular story about a group of people&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>That is harmful to society as whole because it commit unjust stereotypes&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>and warps people\u2019s idea of reality. Adichie explained, in the presentation that&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>the single story of Africa as it was known by her roommate during college&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>caused her to unfairly associate Adichie with ideas of cultural history.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>However, the author also clearly faults herself for also being influenced by&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cThe Single Story\u201d shows that she made mistakes like many others. Due to&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>the strong media coverage on Mexican immigration she \u201chad bought into the&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>single story\u201d automatically associating all Mexicans with immigration. These&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>stories emphasize how stereotypes are formed due to incomplete&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>information. But, one story should not define a group of people. Therefore,&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Adichie says she will not insist that it is those negative stories that make her&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>who she is, and in my opinion it is because it then overlooks all the other&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>incidents and happier stories that also contributed to her present just one&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>single narrative can create stereotypes and the problem of this is not that&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>they are untrue but incomplete.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the article \u201cThe Danger of a Single Story\u201d written\u00a0 by Chimamanda Adichie, the idea of a singular story about a group of people&nbsp; That is harmful to society as whole because it commit unjust stereotypes&nbsp; and warps people\u2019s idea of reality. Adichie explained, in the presentation that&nbsp; the single story of Africa as it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7971,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","openlab_post_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[28],"class_list":{"0":"post-2000","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-conversation-2","7":"tag-conversation-2","8":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/your-eng101-fall23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/your-eng101-fall23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/your-eng101-fall23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/your-eng101-fall23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7971"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/your-eng101-fall23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/your-eng101-fall23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2001,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/your-eng101-fall23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000\/revisions\/2001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/your-eng101-fall23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/your-eng101-fall23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/your-eng101-fall23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}