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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The Danger of a Single Story | TED

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"All of these stories make me who I am. But to insist on only these negative stories is to flatten my experience and to overlook the many other stories that formed me"
"That when we reject the single story, when we realize that there is never a single story about any place, we regain a kind of paradise."
These 2 quotes from Adiche really show how seeing things with an open mind and learning how to interpret stories can lead people being better and makes people more interesting

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"The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem is not that the stereotypes are untrue, but that they are incomplete."
"All I had heard about them was how poor they were, so that it became impossible for me to see them as anything else but poor.Their poverty was my single story of them"

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"The professor told me that my characters were too much like him, and educated and middle-class man. My characters drove cars. They were not starving. Therefore they were not authentically african."

"Stories matter. Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign, but stories can also be used to empower and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity."

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"I recently spoke at a university where a student told me that it was such a shame the Nigerian men were physical abusers like the father character in my novel. i told him that i had just read a novel called 'American Psycho' and that it was a shame that young americans were serial murderers."

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"When we reject a single story, when we realize that there is no single story about any place, we regain a kind of paradise."

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¨Although I still get quite irritable when Africa is referred to as a country, the most recent being my otherwise wonderful flight to Lagos two days ago, in which there was an announcement on the Virgin flight about the charity work in India, Africa and other countries.¨

¨But I also had grandfathers who died in refugee camps. My cousin Polle died because he could not get adequate healthcare. One of my closest friends, Okoloma, died in a plane crash because our fire trucks didn't have water.¨

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"The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story."

"I realized that people like me, girls with skin the color of chocolate, whose kinky hair could not form ponytails, could also exist in literature."

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Never truly base a place or person or thing off of just one story. You should always get a deeper perspective and get to know whatever it is better.

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I think that the message of her talk is that if you are only told one thing about a person or country, and believe that all the people of country are the same, that you will never understand the country. Her main message is that every person is different, and cannot be understood as one large group.

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"So that is how to create a sing story, show a people as one thing, as only one thing,over and over again, and that is what they become."
"Stories matter. Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign, but stories can also be to empower and to humanize."

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I think the message of the TED talk is about people mistreating and misunderstanding the African people. Everyone is caught up in their own world and nobody is paying attention to the people in Africa. Some people call it a country, and some people think Africans don't matter because of the color of their skin.

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"I too would think that Africa was a place of beautiful landscapes, beautiful people, fighting senseless wars, dying of poverty and AIDS, unable to speak for themselves and waiting to be saved by a kind, white foreigner."

"Stories matter. Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and malign, but stories can also be used to empower and humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity."

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Stories matter. Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and malign, but stories can also be used to empower and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity. I would like to end with this thought: That when we reject the single story, when we realize that there is never a single story about any place, we regain a kind of paradise.

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"All of these stories make me who I am. But to insist on only these negative stories is to flatten my experience and to overlook the many other stories that formed me. The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story."
"Start the story with the arrows of the Native Americans, and not with the arrival of the British, and you have an entirely different story. Start the story with the failure of the African state, and not with the colonial creation of the African state, and you have an entirely different story."

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1. ¨ All I had heard about them was how poor they were, so that it had become impossible for me to see them as anything else but poor. Their poverty was my single story of them.¨
2. ¨ ... but stories can also be used to empower and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people,but stories can also repair that broken dignity.¨

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I think that the ted talk message was never take one side of the story. Never base your opinion of someone or something because of one story. Everyone has different experiences and opinions so you can't tell the whole story based off one point of veiw.

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Both Jem Scout and Dill all judged Boo to be an awful, cannibal/murderer based on different versions of the same story.
More than that the entire town judged Tom before they even heard his story based off of a single story about his race, and how everyone is the same.

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The talk connects to the novel because both the novel and the talk deal with the "single story", and how a single story can affect peoples views of each other. In both the novel and the talk, people understanding multiple stories rather than just one could avoid problems.

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This connects to ¨To Kill a Mockingbird¨ because TKAM had a lot of racism going on and in the TED talk, people were being racist to the African people. Also, people never really cared about the colored people because they were different. In the talk, people never really go out of their way and help the Africans. Same in TKAM.

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A person or a place cannot be described/defined by only one story, especially a story where you don't see every side or every cause or reason. It takes more than one story to know someone or to know a people or a place. What we consume through the media may influence of idea of what a people or place. Event though not all stereotypes are false, they are not complete, so we shouldn't let our assumed knowledge of a place or people affect our idea of them.

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Many people believe things, they think they know about things they really don't have much information about. Dont judge anyone, or their back round just because they have something different from you. Be respectful to everyone's back round and culture.

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The message of Adichie's talk was that no one should be based on how they look or how they are stereotyped. Before you judge a person and say something about them you need to get to know how they really are. You have to know what their life is really like and know their story.

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To never make an opinion/idea/stereotype/characterization on a specific person, group or race etc. off of one thing you've heard or read. That there is more to a person, group, race etc. then what you've heard or read, that people etc. have more layers to them than what you hear. Overall that people aren't just the one characteristic you've heard about them or have been taught to believe and that you cannot truly form an opinion/idea of a person, group, race etc. until you've met and spoken/been around about them.

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"The professor told me that my characters are too much like him, an educated and middle-class man. My characters drove cars. They were not starving. Therefore they were not authentically."

"The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story."

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I believe the message of Adichie's talk was to give people a better understanding of how stereotyping people can make you miss out on their real story. She gave examples of this through her TED talk. Her roommate stereotyped her because she was from africa, her professor in college said that her story wasn't accurate because they weren't poor and hungry, and she thought that just because Fide's family was poor that they were incapable of doing anything.

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"My roommate had a single story of Africa: a single story of catastrophe. In this single story, there was no possibility of Africans being similar to her in any way, no possibility of feelings more complex than pity, and no possibility of a connection as human equals."

"The professor told me that my characters were too much like him, an educated and middle-class man. My characters drove cars. They were not starving. Therefore they were not authentically African."

While the quotes I chose were not all positive or motivating I found that they really hit hard.

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1.    "The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete."

2. "The consequence of a single story is this: It robs people of dignity."

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"... seen and heard different versions of this single story, as had a professor, who once told me that my novel was not 'authentically African'. ...I was quite willing to contend that there were a number of things wrong with the novel ...but I had not quite imagined that it had failed at achieving something called African authenticity. ...I did not know what African authenticity was. The professor told me that my characters were to much like him, an educated and middle-class man. My characters drove cars. They were not starving. Therefore they were not authentically African."

"...that is how to create a single story, show a people as one thing, as only one thing, over and over again, and that is what they become."

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In "To Kill a Mockingbird", the town of Maycomb judged Tom Robinson before they even heard his case. Even after they heard his side of the story, the people still convicted him when it was clear he did not commit the crime of which he was accused. Most of the townsfolk believed, despite Tom's perspective, that because of his race he had to be guilty. They judged him on what they had been told defined people of his race before they even met him. They were unwilling to believe that maybe not everyone was the same, and they didn't have the full story.

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I believe that the message of Adichie's talk is to destroy stereotypes of others by telling more than one person's point of view. Since we were little, we've heard about the 'countless' people in poverty, suffering, and dying. Often times, young children think that what they've heard is the only thing that happens in Africa. When in fact, this is not true whatsoever. In my opinion, I doubt you could find many people walking down the street who could name 5 different countries from Africa. This is because it is simply not taught unless you take higher specified courses in high school. Because of this, you don't learn about different cultures as a kid. I highly doubt that in my childhood I had read an "authentic" book from Africa. This can be seen with Chimamanda Adichie's American roomate. Because she had never been exposed to Nigerian culture, she had assumed those stereotypes that children are taught since they were young.

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¨So that is how to create a single story, show people as one thing, as only one thing, over and over again, and that is what they become."
¨Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign, but stories can be used to empower and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity.¨

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This connects to " To Kill a Mockingbird" because it has a lot to do with a one sided story and judgment of people in general. In the book the whole town judged Tom and didn't even want to hear his side of the story because of his race. This connects to how Adichie's roommate judged her before she even had a chance to hear what life was like for Adichie in Nigeria.

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They both relay to the "single story" with basing your opinion on someone because of one thing you've heard about them/someone they associate with. They also can compare in the sense that the ted talk doesn't necessarily correlate with racism but steorotizing and not hearing the full story. As well as both also relate in the manner that in neither the book or Ted Talk no one goes out of the way to pay attention/listen/hear out the side being made assumptions about.

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Not everyone in a certain group is the same. For example, I am a Stoeffler every bit as much as my brothers but that doesn't mean that I really like cereal. Just because someone is black doesn't mean they aren't from America, just because someone is LGBTQ doesn't mean they will dress all up in pride flags, just because someone calls themself a Christian doesn't mean they think they are better than everyone else. I know none of those topics were from the video but I think that is what Adichie met when she talked about single stories, saying people were assumed all the same because of ethnicity or beliefs.

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This connects to the novel because in both cases people made assumptions because of what the person looked like or came from. The white town of Maycomb assumed that Tom Robinson had raped Mayella before the trial even happened simply because he was a colored man. The same way Adichie's roommate assumed she didn't know how to use a stove cause she was from Africa.

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I believe the message is to not create a single story for people. When u make a single story about somebody you're only listening and seeing what other people say about them. You're only looking at the bad things and stereotyping them. I believe Adichie's message was to also look at the good things in people and get to know them better.

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In this ted talk, the author talks about how people can buy into a "single story" and how people are blinded by things they hear and never take the time to fully understand people or a culture. TKAM is very similar, people in the book have a single story of how they think Tom and many other colored people are. Despite his side of the story and all the points that line up to him being innocent, people still refuse to believe it wasn't him because of the stereotypes they have been told and believe. If people in this story were able to not be deceived by this and understood there is so much more to a person, Tom would get the respect he deserves

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Do not base a people or place off of one imagery given. Not everything is what it is painted out to be. If you take writing, for example, in order to make a good character they must have layers. When we are given a character we only look at the top layer instead of peeling them off. What Adichie's basically saying is that there is not one story. There is never one story.

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Both Tom Robinson and Arthur Radley were judged because of single stories told about them. Arthur was said to be cruel and insane in his single story when he was just shy and lonely. Tom Robinson was labeled as a criminal because of his skin when really he had a family just as anybody else.

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Everyone in the town of Maycomb discriminated against Tom Robinson because of his race. They also hated on Atticus for defending him. Everyone assumed Tom was guilty because of his race.

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Never be quick to judge someone (or in this case, a culture) based on one simple story. The world is not that black and white, and most likely never will be. For example, there are men who beat their wives that also love and care for their children deeply, that same man goes to work every day and never got drunk in his life, but because he does one terrible thing thatś all the public sees; a violent, heartless man, a woman too weak to leave, and traumatized children with no way out. Even though this is all true, there's much more to the story than meets the eye. As Adichie says, ¨The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.

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I think that the main message of this ted talk is to spread awareness to the idea of a "single story", which means that many people refuse to believe people different them are no greater and no less than them. She talk about how every person and culture has there good and bad but should now be labeled by only the bad. She also talks about her experiences as a child, her roommates in college and her travelling experiences. She uses all her knowledge to help people understand different people more.

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This connects to "To Kill a Mockingbird" because it has a lot to do with judging people from what others say and think about them. In the book Scout, Dill, Jem and some of the neighbors all believed that Boo Radely was psycho and a cannibal. They all made false accusations about him and didn't even know him. Another way this connects to the book is everyone judged Tom Robinson for what they heard about. him.

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"The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story."

"Stories matter. Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and malign, but stories can also be used to empower and humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity."

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I believe that Adichies message was that both a places story and a persons story matters to both as a whole. Adichie says she is a storyteller and I find that description accurate because she uses her personal expiriences to teach others. Adichie wants us to learn that a places story including it and its peoples struggles and their ancestry can lead to people relating more and understanding their similarities

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The book "To Kill A Mocking Bird" is all about misjudment due to poor understanding and how people can seem evil or strange due to being miss understood.
Boo Radley is misunderstood and his story as well as where he really comes from is not really taken into account. Adichie's speech comes into play here because she really wanted people to understand that a persons story can let people earn their dignity back and let them continue to write a good story.

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"So that is how to create a single story, show people as one thing, as only on thing, over and over again, and that is what they become."

"Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign, but stories can also be used to empower and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity."

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"So that is how to create a single story, show a people as one thing, as only one thing, over and over again, and that is what they become."

"But to insist on only these negative stories is to flatten my experience and to overlook the many other stories that formed me."

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"the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story the only story."

"Stories matter. Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign, but stories can also be used to empower and to humanize."

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I think the message of the TED Talk is that one story can never explain an entire person or thing. Everything has layers and depth, and one person's perspective can never sum up an entire person or place. The TED Talk also emphasizes that there are consequences to only knowing one story about something, and that it pays to be well educated and rounded in that topic.

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In "To Kill a Mockingbird" the people of Maycomb judge Tom Robinson. Even after hearing his side of the story, he was found guilty of a crime he very clearly did not do. He was was given a single story based on what the town thought of people of his race. This connects to how she judges Fide for being poor and how her roommate judged her before knowing what life was actually like for her in Nigeria.

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I believe that the message of Adichie's talk was to not make judgment off of one thing you may hear. This is shown when she expresses, "The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete." As she describes, leaving certain parts out of someones story can create a vital difference.

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I think that the message behind Adichie's talk was that everyone has a story. Every country every people and that they are all important. It is not always easy to accept or to find the truth on both sides but they are equally important. Everyone deserves to have their story heard because stories and words hold meaning and power. We all need to widen our horizons because when we know both stories then we can see a complete picture of the world.

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1. "The professor told me that my characters were too much like him, an educated and middle-class man. My characters drove cars. They were not starving. Therefore they were not authentically African"

2. "I recently spoke at a university where a student told me that it was such a shame that Nigerian men were physical abusers like the father character in my novel. I told him that I had just read a novel called "American Psycho" and that it was such a shame that young Americans were serial murderers."

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"So that is how to create a single story, show a people as one thing, as only one thing, over and over again, and that is what they become."
"Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person."

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"Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person."
"The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story."

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I think the main message of this TED Talk is to show people not to label others or give them a "single story". The TED Talk also shows that leaving out important details of people's lives can really make a difference in how you see them. We need to give everyone a chance to tell their story on their own.

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In "To Kill A Mockingbird" the people in Maycomb judge Tom Robinson based on his race before they had even heard what happened. And even after they had heard both sides of the story, many people sided with Mayella because based on their one dimensional understanding of Tom, it was the most plausible. The book mentions how people will always believe the white man over the man of color, and this is because of prejudice based on stereotypes from single stories. In this case, the consequence of basing their perspective of someone on a single story was sending an innocent man to jail to be killed.

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Adichie's message in her Ted Talk emphasises the danger that comes from assumptions about people. Everyone has a different perspective and story, so to assume everyone's story is the same is the way harmful stereotypes form. For example Adichie's roommate thought that because she was from Africa she didn't know how to cook on a stove. Or that she listened to "Tribal Music"

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"So that is how to create a single story, show a people as one thing, and only one thing, over and over again, and that is what they become."

"The consequence of the single story is this: it robs people of dignity. It makes our recognition of our equal humanity difficult. It emphasizes how we are different rather than how we are similar."

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"That when we reject the single story, when we realize that there is never a single story about any place, we regain a kind of paradise."
"The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story."

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This talk connects with the novel, "To Kill a Mockingbird" because it introduces and goes into depth on how you should not make the judgment of someone through "a single story". In "To Kill A Mockingbird", Jem and Scout had made a judgment of Boo Radley (Arthur) off of rumors they had heard. Since Boo Radley was never seen out of his house, they saw him as a loner, and would create stories and accusations that could not necessarily be proven.

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I think that the message of Adichie's talk is to not judge someone off one thing that you have heard about them. Keep an open mind about other people, even if you have heard the same thing over and over again. If you need to know more about people or a people, you could always ask others or research it.

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"I think, is how impressionable and vulnerable we are in the face of a story, particularly as children. Because all I had read were books in which characters were foreign." "My American roommate was shocked by me. She asked where I had learned to speak English so well, and was confused when I said that Nigeria happened to have English as its official language. She asked if she could listen to what she called my "tribal music." these quotes show that until you really learn what other cultures are like you will begin to believe what others tell you

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Never assume how people act and what they are like by just reading one book about it. Also you should always look at other people's point of view before you make assumptions. Her roommate also made assumptions about her just because of where she came form.

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If you can help it try not to make assumptions about people and their cultures without taking the time to learn more about who they are as a person and what other peoples lives may be like.

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The message of Adichie's talk is that one must have a full understanding of a culture or person before they can judge it. Many times a group will have one collective opinions based off of one story, which will give them the wrong impression. We need to have multiple different perspectives, and decide from there what we believe. The important thing is that we don't judge before we have multiple stories.

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Jem, Dill, and scout were making assumptions about Arthur Radley and when Scout actually got to meet Arthur she realized he isn't a bad person. He is actually a nice person and doesn't mean any harm

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This talk connects to the novel "To Kill a Mockingbird" because all the kids judge Arthur Radley based off of what they have heard about him. All they heard were bad and scary things, so they only thought about him in a bad way. When they found out that he wasn't a creepy person, they were surprised because all they had heard were the bad things.

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Scout, Jem and Dill all made assumptions that Boo was a murder just because of a few stories that they had heard from people in town. If they would had actually talked to Boo they would have had a very different story and that he was actually a nice person. He came to see Jem when he got hurt even though he had not come out before.

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Adichie's talk was very pertinent to the lesson in "To Kill a Mockingbird." The lesson in the book was about assuming things about people. The entire Black population of Maycomb were stereotyped. The Ewells were both the victims of a one sided story and the proponents for putting one out in the world. "Boo" radley was also a victim of a one sided story. Adichie explained how damaging these stories can be.

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This talk can connect to "To Kill a Mockingbird" in two ways. For one, the people of Maycomb judged Tom Robinson, and assumed him guilty because of their prior opinions based off of single stories. They automatically made up their mind about him. The other case is that Scout, Jem, and Dill all think that Boo is a crazed person. They have this opinions because the only thing they really know about him is that he stays in his house all the time, which makes him seem crazy to them.

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I think the message of Adichie's talk is that there is more than one story. When you hear a story of someone you shouldn't come to a conclusion off of that one story. You should look at different perspectives and look, not only for differences, but similarities as well.

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"What this demonstrates, I think, is how impressionable and vulnerable we are in the face of a story, particularly as children."
"In fact, I did not know what African authenticity was. The professor told me that my characters were too much like him, an educated and middle-class man. My characters drove cars. They were not starving. Therefore they were not authentically African."

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I think that the message of Adichie's talk was to warn against listening to any one story about something. It would be like looking at a single facet of a gem or stone and you would only ever see it from that angle and not comprehend how complex it is when you look at it from different angles. So you would need to here multiple different stories about the thing so that you can begin to comprehend how beautiful and complex it really is and so you can learn to understand it.

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1) "Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person."
2) "The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete."

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Assumptions about people create a harmful prejudice against some people that can fuel hatred and suspicion. People like Tom Robinson have untrue assumptions made about him, like that he is a dangerous man that should be put to death. This leads to a mob of people storming the jail cell where he was held. "Boo Radley" also gets assumptions made about him. The children and townspeople heard rumors that he eats cats and squirrels. People have a stigma about Boo Radley which leads the children to try to get him to come out of his house. Just like Adichie's theme in her Ted Talk, we see the role that assumptions has in To Kill a Mockingbird.

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In "To Kill A Mockingbird" Scout, Jem, and Dill heard the rumors about Boo Radley. They said mostly negative things and were focusing on the single story of him. Adichie said "The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story." At the end of the book Scout, jem, and Dill realized that Boo Radley wasn't as horrible as the rumors said he was and that there is more than one story.

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One should not base their opinion/feelings about a person or group on one cumulative story. Different accounts and perspectives can change one's view exponentially. It is important to have empathy as well as reason with your thoughts and evaluating others' stories.

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"When we reject the single story, when we realize that there is never a single story about any place, we regain a kind of paradise"

"Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person"

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This connects to the story in multiple different ways. One example is the person Boo Radley is said to be compared to how kind he was to Scout and the other children. He was made out to be a murderer and a malicious person, but it turned out he was the opposite. Another example of this is a positive story Atticus enforced on Scout and Jem. Atticus did not allow his children to misjudge people based upon their race, unlike most of the town (Tom's case).

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Scout was afraid of Boo because the people only told stories of how bad he was and bad things that happened to his family. Since she only heard variations of how bad he is and that she should leave him alone she didn't really get to know him, but someone from the house left gifts i the tree for her and Jem and covered for her when she and Jem broke into his yard to meet him. Scout then learns later that the reason why he doesn't leave the house is because maybe he wants to stay away from the world, the good and the bad so he may think it is better to pretend it doesn't exist and to try to stay away even if it means missing out on life.

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I believe that the message was not to stereotype a person, group or race by a single story that someone made up or that you've read about. In Adichie's Ted talk she talked about her roommate stereotyping her with a single story about only coming from an African background. Therefore her roommate judged her based on the knowledge she had of Africa before she got to know who Adichie was.

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This Ted talk relates "To Kill a Mockingbird" because both Tom and Arthur had single stories written about them. Without even meeting Tom or hearing his story the white townsfolk automatically assumed he was guilty because of the color of his skin. Arthur had a single story written about him because he never came out and the townsfolk spread rumors of him being a criminal and a horrible person, even though he was kind and shy.

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In TKAM there were many stereotypes like the TedTalk mentioned. For one example, the separation between the white church and black church. Even Jem and Scout started being discriminated against when they went with Cal into her church. People viewed only bad things (mostly rumors) about Boo Radley as well, but when Scout actually met him, she knew that he was really just a good person, and not at all what the rumors and steriotypes made him out to be.

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We can not judge a person or group of persons just based off of what we hear about them. We can not take a side of anything, without hearing both sides fully. We can never judge a person just by who they are or what they seem like because we never truly know a people unless they give their view and you hear their story.

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The connection to TKAM and "The Danger of a Single story" is judging a book by its cover. In the story Jean Louise describes what she thinks of Boo Radley and how he must live, and what he must do, and this thought process is happening due to the story and or rumor she has been fed by the community of Maycomb.

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"The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story."

"Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign, but stories can also be used to empower and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity."

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I believe the meaning of Adichie's talk is that you should never base your opinion of something on a single case. Looking at a broad set of circumstances will tell a more truthful story of a situation. There are many more layers to things than what meets the eye.

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"The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story"

"Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign, but stories can also be used to empower and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity."

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In Harper Lee's, "To Kill a Mockingbird", Tom Robinson, a black man, is falsely accused and convicted of raping a white woman. Even before the trial, the outcome of the trial was obvious due to the color of Tom's skin and the prejudiced nature of the southern United States. Similarly, Adichie's roommate assumed that because she was a woman of color from Africa, she would listen to "tribal" music and not know how to use home appliances. Because of preconceived notions regarding race, two black people were unfairly profiled simply because of the color of their skin.

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Similar to the stereotypes we acquire as young children, the people of Maycomb in "To Kill a Mockingbird" unfairly judged Tom Robinson's case without giving him a fair chance. Because Tom was of darker skin tone the jury of the case, which consisted of only white males (who were likely racist), had come to a verdict for Tom before hearing his argument. Not only this, but most of the men on the jury probably had relatives that served under the CSA during the Civil War and further developed a one-sided story of African Americans. These statements are furthered when we take a look at Chimamanda Adichie's speech. In her speech, she discusses the stereotypes of people that live in Africa. Such as Adichie's roommate. She thought that Chimamanda did not know English, how to read, how to cook, etc. We further this statement with Jem, Scout, and Dill's assumptions of Boo (Arthur) Radley. Because Boo never came out of his house, and everyone had told them rumors of him. Therefore they continuously tried to pull the poor man out of his house to meet him.

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"So that is how to create a single story, show a people as one thing, as only one thing, over and over again, and that is what they become."

"The consequence of the single story is this: it robs people of dignity. It makes our recognition of our equal humanity difficult. It emphasizes how we are different rather than how we are similar."

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Adichie's story is to convey the message that stereotyping is strongly based on one's prejudice. In which it is due to the repetition on specific topics and completely ignoring the other facts that we are all so similar. She constantly repeats that she and others base a person off of stereotypes but then are so surprised/confused to figure out that what they think is only a small part of the picture of a person.

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This talk connects to "To Kill a Mockingbird" in so many different ways. As for one, everybody in the town of Maycomb has a strong prejudice to those of color due to the repetition of their single story. But due to Atticus taking up the case of Tom Robinson, more town folks started opening their mindsets to the other possibilities and started to side with the defendant.

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"When I learned, some years ago, that writers were expected to have had really unhappy childhoods to be successful, I began to think about how I could invent horrible things my parents had done to me."

"All I had heard about them was how poor they were, so that it had become impossible for me to see them as anything else but poor. Their poverty was my single story of them."

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

"The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete."

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I think the main message of the TED Talk was to show the sterotypes people have on others and how it can effect the differnces in a person. Adichie talked about how she had this image of a family based on one word that was given to her to describe this family. Later on she learns that this family is much more than the word she invisioned them to be and they couldn't be based on her thoughts. Another main message I think Adichie included in her story was the fact theres more to everyones story besides what is presented to them and we need to get it out of our head that someone can't be based on what rumors or stories we've heard about them.