Adichie's TED Talk: The Danger Of The Single Story

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After watching Adichie’s TED talk “The Danger of the Single Story” and the film directed by Christopher Quinn God Grew Tired of Us, a main similarity within both of the media was addressing the stereotype misconceptions in parts of the world. Stereotypes exist all over the world and one misconception of one individual could later represent an entire population. In addition to stereotypes, Adichie expands the reasoning for these stereotypes to lie behind power. Meaning that an individual obtaining power has words that have the most impact and leaves that specific listener close-minded to their opinion. Adichie explains in the TED talk “The Danger of the Single Story,” Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to

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