Chimamanda Adichie "The Danger of a Single Story" Reaction

In Chimamanda Adichie’s TED Talk “The Danger of a Single Story” she opens the audience’s eyes to the influence of a single story on kids, and how it is such an obvious concept, yet nobody seems to catch onto it and call it out. The idea Adichie is trying to convey is that the impact of children stories on other children is out of control and that ALL stories about similar topics or situations show a stereotype of the people of that place.  The example she uses is quite simple, she is from Nigeria, and had never been anywhere else. As she was growing up she only read British stories, and all of them were about white, blue-eyed kids. This influenced her own writing at an early age, she did not write about kids like her self –black and living in the desert– she wrote about the kids she had read about. Her main point is that the face of a story is incredible impressionable, especially to children. The concept she is transmitting is true for many cultures, however as a society we are extremely susceptible to what we read and it is people like Chimamanda Adichie who open our eyes to this and educate us to a greater extent.