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Korie Gaumer
Dangers of a Single Story
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A single story can signify imperfect data about the topic at hand which usually refers to an individual and their culture. The effect is small-mindedness and flawed vantage points. The incomplete information may affect the composition of associations among people due to the scarcity in the data. A single story is like putting someone in a box and thus failing to see their other realities and aptitudes. According to Chimamanda Adichie, a single story most of the time intends to either uplift or despise a group of persons. A single story assumes that the truth about one individual representing a population is real for everyone else (Adichie, 2016).
One possible solution to the single-story is for individuals to become open-minded about other people and expose themselves to different materials and cultures to aid in taking a proverbial walk in their shoes. People should study, listen and perceive others without fleeting prior judgment from the single stories they have heard. It is also critical that each embraces who they are and their family history because trying to fit into one perspective of a story can be crushing and tedious. Stereotypic impressions are often too basic and limited to provide decent depictions of the individuals or groups that they are describing. Even with the basic knowledge of a group or individual, it is not unusual for people to embrace these stereotypes at face value. Without the necessary information, interest or time to examine the accuracy of these depictions, it is likely that a person might agree with those portrayals.
References
Adichie, Chimamanda (2016). “The Dangers of a Single Story.” TED . London. may 2019. You Tube. Web
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Carlos Vasquez
INEQUALITY OF ONE SIDED STORIES
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There are many forms of inequality that humanity has experienced over the centuries; the five that I will be discussing are all associated with money. To be specific, these inequalities relate to how gaps in the possession of money affects groups of people. For example, when looking at income, we see that the higher it is, the more likely that income is a result of investment profits (“Income Inequality,” n.d.). If we break that down into common sense terms, it is easily understandable that the more money one has, the more they are able to invest, therefore the more money they are able to make, which goes right back into investments, and provides them with even more returns, and the cycle continues. This has, no doubt, been the case for the top 3 wealthiest individuals in America. When the amount of wealth they possess is compared to the bottom 50% of Americans, the results are astonishing. There is an almost $100 billion difference in favor of the elite! (“Income Inequality,” n.d.).
Ms. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie hosted a TED talks in 2009 where she spoke about stories that only portrayed one particular side and how that affected the perceptions of the people who listened to the story. She stated that children are even more at risk due to the malleable nature of their young brain (“The Danger of a Single Story,” n.d.). We can apply her warning to the Inequality.org website because their whole narrative is how monetary inequality is unfair. That is their one story. As readers, if this was our only exposure to the rich people in America, we might think that they were selfish and uncaring. In reality, being equal and being fair are not the same thing; and people are not defined by how much money they have.
References
TED. (2009, October 7). The danger of a single story [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9Ihs241zeg
Inequality.org. (n.d.). Retrieved from
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