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PERSONAL NARRATIVE
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Novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie left her home in Nigeria to attend college in the United States. "The Danger of Single Story" is a speech Adichie gave in 2009. It examines how we fail to grant each other a full dimensionality when we define one another in “a single story.” Think about how this concept relates to The Scarlet Letter. Consider your own life and write a personal narrative about a time when you experienced less than full dimensionality and what you learned from the experience.
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Personal Narrative
Our professor asked us to listen to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s TED Talk “Danger of a Single Story,” which explains that a single story creates typecasts that are incorrect and makes one become the only story. Chimamanda’s thoughts on the danger of a single story resonated well with an experience I once had when I travelled to Turkey during my summer vacation. When I informed my friends and family that I was travelling to Turkey for a one-month vacation, the replies stretched from being perplexed to the damnation of the whole sub-continent. These reactions were stemming from media depiction of political unrests in the Middle East. After some reflection, I realized that I was also guilty of the question of a single story. I was dumbfounded by media depiction of the Middle East, and sub-consciously the first image had about Turkey was the barren deserts and hooded men depicted in the news. I had standardized the whole sub-continent encounters into a single image displayed by a single group of individuals.
I made my mind and travelled to Turkey. However, while I was in Turkey, my thoughts on less than full dimensionality about Turkey was challenged. I was shocked to discover that Turkish living in Istanbul spoke perfect English and listened to American musicians like Jay-Z, Beyoncé, Mariah Carey, and John Legend. I had a single story about Turkey, about civil unrest and the impracticality for Turkish to be same as me in anyway and relate as equal human beings. Several Americans have a misguided notion of the idea of Turkey as represented in the media that portray it negatively and indifferently. Likewise, I discovered that Turkish restaurants serve American cuisines, and several American students are studying in Turkish universities. I believed the single-story and permitted it to distort my pre-conceptions of the Turkish individuals and culture. Chimamanda explained that we cast-off a single story when we comprehend that there is never a single story concerning any place, we reclaim a sort of paradise. In The Scarlet Letter, Hester wore the letter because she was determined to change its meaning through her actions and her self-perception. I, too, have become open-minded and give space to hear several stories to empower and humanize others. My experience visiting Turkey has proved that a single story is dangerous.
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Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The scarlet letter: 1850. Incorporated, 1850.
Ngozi Adichie, Chimamanda. The Danger of a Single Story. TED Talk July 2009. https://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_ngozi_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story#t-1101088
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