Monday, June 20, 2022

The danger of a single story

"Power is the ability not to just to tell the story of  another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person.”

- Nigerian novelist, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

In her Ted talk about cultural stereotypes Adichie describes a phenomenon she calls ‘the danger of a single story’.

“Show a people as one thing, as only one thing, over and over again, and that is what they become."

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