Social Norms In Chimamanda Adichie's The Danger Of Single Story

Men are always stronger and smarter than women; all teenagers are rebels and rarely follow parents’ instructions; all Chinese are good at math—all of these statements are spread through the entire world although most people know they are not completely true. On the opposite viewpoint, when we evaluate those statements, it is controversial to judge and blame the individuals who spread these kinds of information out and keep saying them over and over again, because most of these things are partly true. This is that we call stereotypes, “which are types of generalizations, or assumptions, that people make about the characteristics of all members of a group, based on an image about what people in that group are like” (Burgess).Also, Chimamanda Adichie, the famous renowned writer, scholar, and the speaker of “The Danger of Single

Meanwhile, most sections of the social norms are the production of the social system; this system consists of diverse small groups, political parties and whole societies; it leads the interactions between people and groups, so that to create and maintain the mainstream trend of the thought in a particular region. Consequently, what people think and how people behave is a special representation of regional and cultural features, which gives rise to the possibility that people can mold stereotypes about others who come from different places, have different cultural backgrounds, or advocate different philosophies. For instance, individuals’ national stereotypes typically function as the first interpretive pattern while more fine-grained perceptions develop over time with increasing knowledge of the particular setting (Vaara 88).The first interpretive pattern is what people have been socialized with the particular regional and cultural influence, which is a greatly significant factor when those people who are from a particular area stereotype