The Danger of a Single Story
- Paige
- Aug 25, 2018
- 1 min read
Updated: Aug 26, 2018
During we class we watched "The Danger of a Single Story." What single stories have impacted your life? Has this been negative or positive? How have you employed single stories to define other people? Why do you think single stories are dangerous?
Also, consider the single stories that might exist about feminism. What kinds of things do you hear about feminism that we could considered a single story or a stereotype? How does reading literature by women upset the single story of the literary canon?
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Has a single story impacted my life? What a joke, my whole life I have had to live up to single stories. It’s either being to fat to be an Ethiopian or to black to be around my white friends or to white to hang out with my black friends. Which is it? What am I? Am I really those things? Or is that what makes you comfortable around me? I don’t see these things as a negative impact on my life, but rather a positive. Yeah at first it put me down but you live and you learn. You learn that you are whom you set out to be not what people say. You make the decisions in your…
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