The danger of a single story professional learning activity. Download transcript for the danger of a single story. The risk of the single story, the one perspective, is that it can lead us to default assumptions, conclusions and decisions that may be incomplete, and may lead to misunderstanding. And i would like to tell you a few personal stories about what i like to call the.
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Novelist chimamanda adichie tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice and warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding. Chimamanda ngozi adichie the danger of a single story. Use this quiz to check what you know about adichies ted talk discussion about the danger of the single story. Click to tweet the consequence of the single story is this. 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, no possibility of a connection as human equals. Pdf icon french transcript le danger dune histoire unique.
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