Response to Chimamanda Adichie "The Danger of a Single Story"

In the TED talk done by Chimamanda Adichie, she informs the audience how she was able to find her authentic cultural voice. It is through the title of this video that we can realize the purpose of it; she tries to warn the audience about the danger there is to just listen one story about a person or country.  If that happens, then because of human nature, we use that piece of information to produce prejudices when we think about the person or the country. She uses a personal example to convey this idea. It is the story of how her family told her that the kid working on her house was really poor and then every time Adichie thought of the kid, she would only picture him as a poor kid. She also talks about how people just have one idea about Nigeria and Africa and all the time it is not true. Adichie tries to explain the reader that if we just listen to one story about a certain thing, we risk having a critical misunderstanding. This is seen throughout history and especially with Europeans when they invaded Africa and believe the natives there were totally different and didn’t have any rights.   The quote that explains the misunderstanding that people have about Africa happens to be: “After referring to the Black Africans as beasts that don’t have houses”. Just having one piece of information isn’t enough to start making some comments because we are never sure how good the information is. Learning and having more sources allow humans to have bigger background information about a certain topic and it doesn’t allow humans to have a misunderstanding concept.