jueves, 23 de mayo de 2013

Chimamanda Adichie is a story teller who presents a revolutionary point of view of the danger of having a single story of nations and people who belong to a specific country.Chimamanda Adichie demonstrates how   impressionable and vulnerable we are when we read a story, particularly as children. We made a generalization when we read stories assuming that the world was like we read in books.Therefore our vulnerability to believe the stories of a country begins when we were children and this conveys what we believe as a single story of a country. Having a single story does not mean that it is false but it is not the only story that exits of a country. It is important to identify different versions of the single story because in this way we are able to form a more completed one and being more objective with our perception of reality. In addition, it is important to tell the majority of the stories of a country because positive and negative stories make us who we are. On the other hand the single story creates stereotypes. The stereotypes are true but they are also incomplete. The consequence of the single story is that it drops people’s dignity. Taking into account the fact that the stereotypes emphasize people’s difference, discrimination begins to flow. Chimamanda Adichie explores both poles of the dilemma in order to give us two different perceptions. She has judged, and been judged, and has learned that only hearing one side of a story can distort accurate perceptions. Giving her personal example invites us to reflect that we can be on both sides: sometimes we can be the single story of a person and sometimes we can have a single story of a person who is full of amazing stories. Finally Chimamanda Adichie expects a change in the way we discern the stories of a country in order to reject the single story and break the stereotypes.

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