Thursday, March 8, 2012

MINemergent - The Danger of a Single Story

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Mar 8, 2012
    

The Danger of a Single Story 

 

The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story. 

 

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

 

What is the single story you hold about other people? What would it look like to listen to their many stories?

  

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