{"id":466,"date":"2013-08-21T20:14:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-21T20:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2013\/08\/chimamanda-adichie-the-danger-of-a-single-story.html"},"modified":"2014-07-28T16:14:56","modified_gmt":"2014-07-28T21:14:56","slug":"chimamanda-adichie-the-danger-of-a-single-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2013\/08\/chimamanda-adichie-the-danger-of-a-single-story.html","title":{"rendered":"Chimamanda Adichie: The Danger of a Single Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/embed.ted.com\/talks\/chimamanda_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story.html\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"460\" height=\"256\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>In this superb talk, Nigerian writer, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie eloquently discusses the dangers of cultural preconceptions. \u00a0With no overlapping stories to change these preconceptions, these single stories can be definitive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShow a people one thing over and over,\u201d she says, \u201cand that is what they will become.\u201d \u00a0 Start the story of the native Americans with arrows, and not with the arrival of the British, and you begin a single story that defines a people. \u00a0Or, start \u00a0the story with the failure of the African states rather than the creation of these states by the colonial powers, and you begin a single story.<\/p>\n<p>We need overlapping stories to dispel the stereotypes created by \u00a0single stories. While Africa has problems including war and starvation, there are other stories, equally important. \u201cThe consequence of the single story,\u201d Adichie notes, \u201cis this: it robs people of their dignity.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this superb talk, Nigerian writer, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie eloquently discusses the dangers of cultural preconceptions. \u00a0With no overlapping stories to change these preconceptions, these single stories can be definitive. \u201cShow a people one thing over and over,\u201d she says, \u201cand that is what they will become.\u201d \u00a0 Start the story of the native Americans [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1838,"featured_media":4647,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Chimamanda Adichie: The Danger of a Single Story<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In this superb talk, Nigerian writer, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie eloquently discusses the dangers of cultural preconceptions. \u00a0With no overlapping stories\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2013\/08\/chimamanda-adichie-the-danger-of-a-single-story.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Chimamanda Adichie: The Danger of a Single Story\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In this superb talk, Nigerian writer, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie eloquently discusses the dangers of cultural preconceptions. \u00a0With no overlapping stories\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2013\/08\/chimamanda-adichie-the-danger-of-a-single-story.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"World Religions\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2013-08-21T20:14:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2014-07-28T21:14:56+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/433\/2013\/08\/chimam.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"124\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"186\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"George G. 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