Monday, September 6, 2010
The danger of a single story
The danger of a single story is that with one story we only have one perception of someone or something. When we only know one thing to be true about Africa for example that stereotype is a single story. Out of that one story there are many others besides Africa being a poor country. Adichie's speech relates to our discussions because like her single story, Texas is creating a single story of history. Just like the danger of a Adichie's single story, Texas' single story is in my opinion dangerous to our counrty because in our discussion it was brought up that if history is changed and rewritten how will we learn from it to benefit our future? My answer is we cant learn from it if what we are reading is only half correct. In that sense it is dangerous because we are predisposed to repeat our mistakes.
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