The consequence of the single story is this: It robs people of dignity.
You fail to see their perspective and side, therefore only confining them to whatever your belief is.
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- Oct 2021
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ut to insist on only these negative stories is to flatten my experience and to overlook the many other stories that formed me
It is dangerous to view anything through one perspective. You have to consider all angles and then and only then do you come up with your final conclusion in your mind.
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But it would never have occurred to me to think that just because I had read a novel in which a character was a serial killer that he was somehow representative of all Americans
This is a very interesting take yet it's true. When we see a white man shoot up a school we don't assume this is something that christianity supports, yet when a terrorist blows up a building the media will be quick to assume that this was due to islam.
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and you have an entirely different story
It doesn't matter if you include all the same material, if structured in a different way, you are telling an entirely different tale.
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and to start with, "secondly."
It shows that you are going to contradict everything that you just said.
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an educated and middle-class man
People still associate wealth and economic circumstance with race. White men and women do not have a monopoly over middle class behavior.
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I would see Africans in the same way that I, as a child, had seen Fide's family.
She hits the mark perfectly with the point that it is dangerous to assume that the only thing true about the subject you are thinking about is what was told to you. Nothing in this world is subjected to just one identity everything has depth and multiple layers to it.
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The only thing my mother told us about him was that his family was very poor.
Speaker chooses to provide context to support her point that she can not just view a person as just one thing "poor".
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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
This is a very good start to her argument.
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