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The novel was not authentically African to the professor because he was thinking based on things that he has heard. He thought that they are poor, and didn't drive cars. So when she gave him her novel, about them driving and not being poor he didn't believe that it was authentically African.

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The professor was heavily influenced by what he had seen from the media about Africa. He didn't know what authentic African was because he was going based off what the media told him to believe. The same thing happened to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie when she went to Mexico. All she knew was what the media had said about them.

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This quote means that when a group of people in a positive light over and over again they only become that same belief. For example, in the TEDTalk she talks about how American TV only shows Mexican people as people who just break laws to get to the US but, in actuality their are not many people like that. This example supports the idea that since the American media only painted a picture of one idea she believed it and that is that idea is the only idea when she thought of a Mexican person.

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this quote gave me a perspective on stereotypes, I often find myself doing the same thing as her roommate. I think it is important that we recolonize how harmful that even innocent pity can be to entire cultures.

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To me this quote means that when groups of people are stereotyped and grouped together under one topic that is all they are and ever will be. This overall gives people no room to grow or change people's opinions on them if they are not given a chance to do so.

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This quote makes me think of the African stereotype where every African in Africa is poor and distant from the modern world.
I think it's important to learn about a people before placing assumptions and judging. Her roommate was thinking of the idea of being "authentically African."

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It showed in my mind that people in western cultures have been only told one story of people from Africa were all poor and bad situations. The idea of Africa all being poor or being in a bad situation is not helped because when you get told about Africa in a bad light such as in the news.

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This quote stood out to me because it shows how people really dont get to learn about people they make assumtions on what they think they are like and judge them before they know them.

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This quote really dose explain why stereotypes can be hurtful its not because they are untrue its because people are more than the stereotype that they may fit. People have more feelings and thoughts than what there stereotype will predict.

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this quote calls to me because she spoke of how she heard all over the media how Mexicans were crossing the border and expected them to be impoverish but they were just leaving normal live and felt shame knowing that that she looked at one story one idea of the types of people Mexicans were when they were really just living normal lives.

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Her professer did not recognize her novel as "authentically African" because he was not aware of the many traits and attributes of Africa. He had simply heard things about Africa through the media, that it's a poverty-stricken, disease-ridden, and war-ravaged continent.

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This quote shows that a person can judge you off of your first impression before they even know you as a person. A person can have a stereotype of what they think you are based off where you are from and how you look.

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This quote stood out to me because it is something you can constantly see. There are a lot of stereotypes in the world and this quote really made me think about them. It also talks about how stereotypes are based on that single story.

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This quote is significant. It shows that poverty and the bad things in the world and in peoples lives arent the whole story, that there are more. "Don't judge a book by its cover." Just because we see one thing, doesn't mean that is all there is. I think this really applies to people, everyone has something bad going on in there lives, but most people don't know it or don't know the whole story. It's important to not let the negative or our predetermined views of a person or place overcome their story, and the fact that we don't know that much.

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This quote stands out to me because it really signifies the false stereotype of Africans created from western narratives and the media. They are perceived as people who need to be helped and pitied.

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Stereotypes are not necessarily wrong, but they only show one side of things. They do not show the whole truth and this is what single stories do. They make the readers think of these places as this single way but it not accurate because they do not add the second half. Most of the time they show only the negative part and this is what the world then sees and believes.

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This quote was an example of the reality of stereotypes that exist and the negative side of them.

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This quote is saying how she only knew that family because of what her mother told her and when she went to visit the family she was sort of shocked when the mother of the family showed her a beautiful woven basket and she was surprised because she only thought of them as poor and not able to do anything of value really.

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This quote shows how the western narrative can really change the truth especially when the narrative has been false for a long time, because of it being twisted for so long.

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This quote really helps explain both sides of stereotypes, that while they may be true in some instances- this is not the case all of the time. They generally only describe one attribute of a person or group of people.  A person's entire character cannot be summed up in a single line.

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cultures and peoples in that culture can get so wrapped up in a stereotype that it becomes common thought of these people - people might not even have second thoughts about different stories and remain oblivious to the reality of the situation.

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This quote makes me realize how much stereotypes can impact someone whether it's a good thing or bad. People often judge others based of their physical appearance, or from what they have heard from others. This can lead to many false accusations and judging others without learning first.