P2: Takeaways from Adichie's Lecture. by Stephanie Faucette https://padlet.com/steph_faucette/nz6r5n3x0c3xfcra Post one takeaway or insight. You can even quote! en-us 2023-01-18 20:40:37 UTC 2023-01-24 15:04:25 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f30d.png "that people like me could exist in literature" https://padlet.com/steph_faucette/nz6r5n3x0c3xfcra/wish/2454788515 2023-01-24 14:57:24 UTC https://padlet.com/steph_faucette/nz6r5n3x0c3xfcra/wish/2454788515 https://padlet.com/steph_faucette/nz6r5n3x0c3xfcra/wish/2454788537 literature is extremely impactful and influential]]> 2023-01-24 14:57:25 UTC https://padlet.com/steph_faucette/nz6r5n3x0c3xfcra/wish/2454788537 "show a group of people as one thing, and only one thing, and that is what they become" https://padlet.com/steph_faucette/nz6r5n3x0c3xfcra/wish/2454788881 2023-01-24 14:57:35 UTC https://padlet.com/steph_faucette/nz6r5n3x0c3xfcra/wish/2454788881 "i loved british and american books, but the unintended consequence was that I did not know people like me could exist in literature" https://padlet.com/steph_faucette/nz6r5n3x0c3xfcra/wish/2454788988 2023-01-24 14:57:39 UTC https://padlet.com/steph_faucette/nz6r5n3x0c3xfcra/wish/2454788988 https://padlet.com/steph_faucette/nz6r5n3x0c3xfcra/wish/2454789114 We are impressionable and vulnerable when we read books as children ]]> 2023-01-24 14:57:44 UTC https://padlet.com/steph_faucette/nz6r5n3x0c3xfcra/wish/2454789114 https://padlet.com/steph_faucette/nz6r5n3x0c3xfcra/wish/2454789278 if you show people as one thing over and over again, that is what they become]]> 2023-01-24 14:57:50 UTC https://padlet.com/steph_faucette/nz6r5n3x0c3xfcra/wish/2454789278 https://padlet.com/steph_faucette/nz6r5n3x0c3xfcra/wish/2454789310 "I now identify as African in many ways."]]> 2023-01-24 14:57:51 UTC https://padlet.com/steph_faucette/nz6r5n3x0c3xfcra/wish/2454789310 https://padlet.com/steph_faucette/nz6r5n3x0c3xfcra/wish/2454789350 As a young writer, her writing was influenced by British and American literature although having no experience with many of the elements in her own stories ]]> 2023-01-24 14:57:53 UTC https://padlet.com/steph_faucette/nz6r5n3x0c3xfcra/wish/2454789350 https://padlet.com/steph_faucette/nz6r5n3x0c3xfcra/wish/2454789496 people can be very oblivious to other cultures if not properly informed on them]]> 2023-01-24 14:57:57 UTC https://padlet.com/steph_faucette/nz6r5n3x0c3xfcra/wish/2454789496 https://padlet.com/steph_faucette/nz6r5n3x0c3xfcra/wish/2454789532 Young kids are very impressionable when it comes to literature]]> 2023-01-24 14:57:57 UTC https://padlet.com/steph_faucette/nz6r5n3x0c3xfcra/wish/2454789532 https://padlet.com/steph_faucette/nz6r5n3x0c3xfcra/wish/2454789559 She went through a mental shift in her perception of literature.]]> 2023-01-24 14:57:58 UTC https://padlet.com/steph_faucette/nz6r5n3x0c3xfcra/wish/2454789559 when the media portrays someone a certain way countless times, many people tend to believe that single story https://padlet.com/steph_faucette/nz6r5n3x0c3xfcra/wish/2454789774 2023-01-24 14:58:05 UTC https://padlet.com/steph_faucette/nz6r5n3x0c3xfcra/wish/2454789774 "I did not know people like me could exist in literature" https://padlet.com/steph_faucette/nz6r5n3x0c3xfcra/wish/2454789777 2023-01-24 14:58:05 UTC https://padlet.com/steph_faucette/nz6r5n3x0c3xfcra/wish/2454789777 https://padlet.com/steph_faucette/nz6r5n3x0c3xfcra/wish/2454789789 "I was saved from having a single story of literature" by other Nigerian writers. ]]> 2023-01-24 14:58:05 UTC https://padlet.com/steph_faucette/nz6r5n3x0c3xfcra/wish/2454789789 https://padlet.com/steph_faucette/nz6r5n3x0c3xfcra/wish/2454789885 before she read Nigerian stories, she at first thought that all her stories had to have foreigners as the characters]]> 2023-01-24 14:58:09 UTC https://padlet.com/steph_faucette/nz6r5n3x0c3xfcra/wish/2454789885 https://padlet.com/steph_faucette/nz6r5n3x0c3xfcra/wish/2454789888 Have to look at different perceptions and not just one idea of someone]]> 2023-01-24 14:58:09 UTC https://padlet.com/steph_faucette/nz6r5n3x0c3xfcra/wish/2454789888 https://padlet.com/steph_faucette/nz6r5n3x0c3xfcra/wish/2454790076 When we are exposed to a specific stereotype, it can be very harmful to society's mindset.]]> 2023-01-24 14:58:16 UTC https://padlet.com/steph_faucette/nz6r5n3x0c3xfcra/wish/2454790076 https://padlet.com/steph_faucette/nz6r5n3x0c3xfcra/wish/2454790201 getting a single perspecitive is inaccurate, and you must view the full picture to understand something or someone: "i found that people like me...could also exist in literature"

]]> 2023-01-24 14:58:21 UTC https://padlet.com/steph_faucette/nz6r5n3x0c3xfcra/wish/2454790201 https://padlet.com/steph_faucette/nz6r5n3x0c3xfcra/wish/2454790745 When her American roommate thought she automatically was clueless in culture and tradition just because of her looks. Shows how we are so quick to judge a book by its cover. ]]> 2023-01-24 14:58:33 UTC https://padlet.com/steph_faucette/nz6r5n3x0c3xfcra/wish/2454790745 perspective is everything. what you are presented with is all you know. you can't be blamed for being close-minded when it's all you've known. you can't be chastised for eating pizza when it's all you've been fed. https://padlet.com/steph_faucette/nz6r5n3x0c3xfcra/wish/2454791306 2023-01-24 14:58:52 UTC https://padlet.com/steph_faucette/nz6r5n3x0c3xfcra/wish/2454791306 We assume that foreign people must only be one thing and that we have to feel bad for them or save them because of the media and it is an extremely wrong perspective https://padlet.com/steph_faucette/nz6r5n3x0c3xfcra/wish/2454791988 2023-01-24 14:59:14 UTC https://padlet.com/steph_faucette/nz6r5n3x0c3xfcra/wish/2454791988 https://padlet.com/steph_faucette/nz6r5n3x0c3xfcra/wish/2454792273 she found her way in literature and realized how much it can change someone's life]]> 2023-01-24 14:59:22 UTC https://padlet.com/steph_faucette/nz6r5n3x0c3xfcra/wish/2454792273 https://padlet.com/steph_faucette/nz6r5n3x0c3xfcra/wish/2454792490 she felt like she could have no deep human connection with fide's family and then in america her roommate felt the same about her. this shows how all people are guilty of believing what their society tells them about other cultures]]> 2023-01-24 14:59:30 UTC https://padlet.com/steph_faucette/nz6r5n3x0c3xfcra/wish/2454792490