Danger Of A Single Story

As human beings, we tend to not understand that what we see or hear about social media, television, books, etc. can guide us towards this one piece of the puzzle. Not knowing the rest of the puzzle creates the assumption of a single story. In her TED talk, Chimamanda Adichie has spoken about the dangers of only knowing a story which leads to stereotyping. By this being said, to what extent do we as a society form a single story about others? To answer this question, there is a great extent when people create their single stories about others because we make these single stories without even realizing it. Chimamanda is a mere example, a representative of how our society thinks and is treated  when making a single

Throughout a person's life they are bound to do one of the following; be apart of a single story, struggle with their identity or stereotype someone or something. Literature reflects this experience people have with their identity. The "single story" is something that affects everyone, consistently and can be seen throughout literature; everything and everyone has a single story. In "The Danger of a Single Story," Adichie talks about its impact; this is also explored in Supaman's lyrics, and "Hope Against Hope" by Sherman Alexie.

     As stated in the first paragraph of this article, “Multicultural education has been transformed, refocused, reconceptualized, and in a constant state of evolution both in theory and in practice.” Multicultural education is always changing. Culture is something that changes on a day-to-day basis. The way our society changes is no one’s hands, but our own.

Racism has become more and more outraged throughout the years, to where it has divided our country. It’s made us fear our authorities, our neighbors, and ‘brothers’. The excerpt in “The Fire This Time”, titled “White Rage” by Carol Anderson, shows the progress that hasn’t been made because of white rage. Racism is not a fresh topic, it has been around since the times of slavery, only now has it been ignited and is now more of a threat than anything else in this country. The new subtle form of racism should not be accepted in society because it is barbarous, immoral, and discriminatory.

Many famous individuals of color in our history have hoped to one day live in a nation without the feeling of a segregation between different ethnicities. Unfortunately, these hopes have still not come to fruition in our society today. The United States is still rocked by the idea that one pigment of color is superior to another. This discrimination is caused by a lack of education in our generation and an aversion to difference that has been passed down from our ancestors. Rick Wormeli in “Let’s Talk About Racism in Schools” argues “The violence among U.S. residents of different colors, cultures, religions, and political groups has heated to new levels. Social media may have exacerbated the divisive rhetoric and fanned the flames of hatred more than in past decades, but the intense distrust and contempt, and the inability to resolve these feelings in a civil manner, didn’t start with social media. They are the new normal for many.” (citation). The movie Crash, accurately depicts these problems that we have seen with racism in our country for the past hundred years and more abundantly today. In this essay, I will be discussing how the movie crash helps reveal the fact that racism is multicultural, how racism affects the crime rates in our younger generations, and how the nation can begin to heal from racism.

Despite changes in the landscape for treatment of ethnic minorities in the United States over the past 200 years, issues with racism has never stopped being an issue and continues to tarnish and tatter the very fabric of our nation. There has been a history of violence against Black people that dates back 400 years, to a time when the first slave was forcefully brought here to the USA (Rogers, 2015). From that time on, people of African descent have been dehumanized and treated as second-class citizens and this has become an ongoing community issue (Diversi, 2016). Racial classification was created as a way to condone slavery and maintain the primacy of the white race (Tolliver, Hadden, Snowden, & Manning, 2016). Aymer (2016) explains that the Critical Race Theory (CRT) provides a way to understand that the violence that Blacks face in America originates from the societal belief in White superiority and, when trying to understand the Black reality, centuries of racial oppression must be discussed (Aymer, 2016). CRT acknowledges that racism is primarily a problem in America and has contributed to the social disparities in the U.S. In addition, it notes other forms of oppression that are important to discuss and work through. CRT does not believe in the legal rhetoric that there is an impartial, equal way of dealing with individuals in the community that has nothing to do with color and everything to do with achievement and hard work. It also takes on an interdisciplinary

In today’s time, the United States of America have drifted off its course of trying to reach a utopia. Social problems are rising for many people of color and non-color people. The problems have been illuminated in politics, education, employment, and social media. Problems such as discrimination of a certain group of people, and economic hardship are the most common issues. Reflecting back on America’s history, America has had a long history of white versus black ever since the slavery era, which took place during the time of the civil war. Ever since then, the United States have striven and persevere to change its society ethics. But, America is now slowly shifting back to a world where white supremacy and people of color are immensely separated

Racism and racial stereotypes have existed throughout human history. The radical belief associated by thinking the skin color, language, or a person’s nationality is the reason that someone is one way or another has become extremely detrimental to society. Throughout human existence it has sparked tension between groups of people and ultimately influenced wars and even caused slavery. Racism in America dates back to when Native Americans were often attacked, relocated, and assimilated into European culture. Since then, racism within the states has grown to include various other cultures as well. In the essays by Brent Staples, Bharati Mukherjee, and Manuel Munoz, they discuss the various causes as well as the effects that racial stereotyping can place on a victim and the stigma it leaves behind for the society to witness.

As I video blog this Journal Entry, I will share personal thoughts and feelings on American Racial Relations. This week’s modules on American Racial Relations, which include Prejudice, Racism, and Oppression, have shown to be very a powerful, and influential topic.

The article, “The Danger of a Single Story”, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, demonstrates the detrimental effect of a single story. Obviously, the speaker undertakes a sort of things, which makes her more objective and practical. Firstly, the author becomes more objective. During her trip in Mexico, “[She] [has] bought into the single story of Mexicans and [she] [can] not have been more ashamed of [herself].” (Page 4, paragragh21), proves the ashamed impression that the author experiences, which teach author to think in a different point of view instead of believing a single story. Secondly, when “Here [is] a woman”, who represents as a “part of the ordinary masses of Nigerians who [are] not supposed to be readers.”, comes to discuss about the

Earlier this year, a Unite the Right rally was scheduled August 12 to protest against the removal of a Confederate statue. That day, a state of emergency was declared by the city. Only two hours later, a car rammed into anti-racist protesters before speeding away. This attack injured at least 19 people, and killed one. This article was written for Americans.Sophia A. Nelson started off this article with a strong quote from Toni Morrison, “In the country, ‘American’ means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate”. She continues on to tell us about where our American ancestors came from, and when they settled here. Here she brings about a strong point, “It was not just white people who built this country”. Throughout her article, she uses an urgent tone to show the desperation of this situation. The author argues that racism is still incredibly prominent in modern america, and it is increasingly dangerous to all American citizens.

Racism is a very controversial topic for many people to discuss, and now-a-days it seems like it is becoming more and more apparent with the deaths and limitations that are plaguing our societies near and far. There are many ways racism presents itself in our society and cross culturally. The most common places that racism presents itself is in mainstream media and marketing, our own governments and laws whether they be foreign or domestic and in the minds of the people in our own societies.

After watching Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie video “The Danger of a Single Story,” and according to the way she used to deliver her idea, I realized that she was fearless and had a high-level knowledge. Adichie used her life experience and emotional examples to drive her audience to an idea of what happens when the same negative one-side story about a group of people or place gets repeated, and letting listeners with no knowledge of the story to create inadequate truths as a result. I used George Eliot’s quote “Don’t Judge a Book by Its Cover” because it explains the video’s contents and idea.

Racism has become a growing problem, infecting people’s brains like a parasite and turning them into racist zombies. This idea was encouraged by slavery in the seventeenth century, where it grew from European dominance to the New World—the Americas. When slavery was abolished, black people were not equal—and it lead to discrimination in the nineteenth to twentieth centuries. Even in North America’s marches to freedom and equality in 1963, today we’ve seen on TV the horrors that survived all these years of racial discrimination. Of course, this does not mean that racism only directs itself to African-Americans, it can go to immigrants from all over the world that

What’s the danger of a single story? The danger of a single story is the person hearing the single story will not get the full story and could not understand what they are being told. The person eating a single story might even act a different way because they aren't actually aware of the full story.