This morninng I listened to a TED talk that was entitled "The Danger of a Single Story". The speaker talks about how we risk having a limited understanding of a people or culture if we are reliant only on single stories which describe them.
Two quotes that the speaker shared stood out to me:
1) "The problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue but they are incomplete; they make one story become the only story." (13:19)
2) "The consequence of the single story is this: it robs people of diginity; it makes our recognition of our equal humanitiy difficult. It recognizes how we are different rather than how we are similar (13:59)"
Two quotes that the speaker shared stood out to me:
1) "The problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue but they are incomplete; they make one story become the only story." (13:19)
2) "The consequence of the single story is this: it robs people of diginity; it makes our recognition of our equal humanitiy difficult. It recognizes how we are different rather than how we are similar (13:59)"
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