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she tells that she once realised that she believed a single story about Mexico. She heard a lot of negative stories in the US media where they showed Mexicans only as immigrants crossing the border. But when she visited Mexico she realised that people were doing more than just crossing the borders. she was ashamed by her behavior then.

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she tells about how one story does not tell the story of one. certain stereotypes make it hard to get to know one when you already made up your mind after one look or one horrible story. Not every good writer or African person has a bad life that is followed by trauma…

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1. What happened when Chimamanda visited Mexico?

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1. What happened when Chimamanda visited Mexico?

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She found out how hard the life there is and how bad the health systems are. What the Mexicans do in their free time or daily basis and was ashamed of herself, how the media coverage of Mexicans became object immigrants in her mind.

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Show a people as one thing, as only one thing, over and over again, and that is what they become.

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the video deals with the representation of africa in western literature from the 16th century. the author criticizes the negative portrayal of africa.

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The Story is about a Nigerian woman who first talks about herself and that she only red storys about british and american people. When she discovered African books it changed her perception of literarture. She now loves American and British books, but a consequence was that she didnt know that people like her could exist in literature.

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In the video the woman is talking about her experience with her roommate when she went to America. Her roommate was surprised after she spoke English well because she thought that people from Africa couldn't speak English good and that they were poor. Then the woman realised that people from the US had a bad view of Africa.

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1. What kind of tradition began after the telling of African stories in the West? Why?

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1. What kind of tradition began after the telling of African stories in the West? Why?

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A tradition of Sub-Saharan Africa as a place of negatives, of difference, of darkness.

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1. What kind of stories was Chimamanda writing in her childhood? Why was she writing them like that?

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1. What kind of stories was Chimamanda writing in her childhood? Why was she writing them like that?

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all the stories she was reading and writing about were about white people and stuff she had no idea about because she never left her country

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2. What happened after she started reading African books?

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2. What happened after she started reading African books?

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- it changed her perception

- she started to write about things she recognized

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1. What kind of story did her roommate have about Africa?

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1. What kind of story did her roommate have about Africa?

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She is a Nigerian woman who had the experience that a lot of people had prejudices against her

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1. What is the problem with stereotypes?

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1. What is the problem with stereotypes?

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The problem is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. making one story becoming the only story

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2. Why doesn't Chimamanda see Africans in the same way that she had seen Fide's family in her childhood?

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2. Why doesn't Chimamanda see Africans in the same way that she had seen Fide's family in her childhood?

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We think it's because Fide and their family have a biased perspective on foreigners from Africa. The reason is, they only received a limited amount of information mixed together with stereotypes that have influenced their view on African individuals.

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2. Why weren't Chimamanda's stories not "authentically African" to her professor?

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2. Why weren't Chimamanda's stories not "authentically African" to her professor?

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Because the story does not adhere to the "typical African" clichés. These say that people in Africa are poor, have no food and not enough to drink. In the book, the characters were "too middle class".

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3. What does the Igbo word "nkali" mean?

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3. What does the Igbo word "nkali" mean?

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The Word translates to being greater than another. Stories are too defined by the principle of Nkali: How they are told, who tells them, when they’re told, how many stories are told, are really dependent on power

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2. What is the consequence of a single story?

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2. What is the consequence of a single story?

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it leads to stereotypes making people see other people in a wrong way without questioning the truth and then they don't treat each other the same anymore