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Stereotypes are a concept that is incredibly interesting to think about and question, mainly because of the fact that there really is some truth to most of them. In Chimamanda Adichie’s TED Talk, “The Danger of a Single Story,” she mainly discusses the trouble with people using stereotypes as their only schemas towards certain groups of people instead of learning more about others and their stories. While it can be agreed upon that there is some truth to stereotypes, it is important to realize that there is always more to a human than meets the eye. Adichie uses multiple examples of stereotypes being used against her without these people around her knowing her complete life story. To begin, one example used is when Adichie moves from Africa to America for university and dorms with an American roommate. In the TED Talk, Adichie says, “She (her roommate) 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... My roommate had a single story of Africa.” Adichie is incredibly mature while discussing this situation to her audience, because while it is shown that her roommate was extremely ignorant, Adichie understands why, since the News often does not show the complete story of Africa. It shows the deserts and dangers …show more content…

I work in a grocery store, so many customers a day will come through the lines and buy a large sum of items and in the end, pay with food stamps. I constantly hear my coworkers complaining about these kinds of customers, often calling them freeloaders. Even customers who come through my line will say these things to me while the customers with food stamps are an earshot away. When I began working there two years ago, I agreed with these people around me as to not start any arguments, but it always made me feel

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