Adichie’s talks about that we shouldn’t really on a single story because it could lead to stereotypes and misunderstandings on people, cultures, or places. And how a single story is created based on lack of knowledge. She also argues how having one perspective it’s damaging to the other person culture. She talks about when her roommate and other people will assume people from Africa were poor and they didn’t have things like books or music. Advice Adichie offer is we shouldn’t only hear about one single story we should seek different perspectives and not have stereotypes. I will use Adichie’s advice this semester when I work in my observations to not have only one narrative and learn from many different subcultures. Adichie’s advice also help me in my transcultural interview to not assume anything of my Interviewee just based on where they are from.

This entry is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.