This is late but, “The Single Story”
4. The media is a huge impact on Single stories, they do it
all the time! Media lies about so much and half
of the people don’t take time to actually read in on it so what they hear first
is what they expect. Ebola is a huge story right now or it was… the media
basically said all of Africa had it when it was a minimum of three countries,
not the whole continent.
5. I've fallen to a “single
story” many times, we create so many stereotypes about different races and
religions and lots of other things. When I went to Canada I thought everyone
was going to be nice, first time I went was I stayed in a hotel and I could
hear two Canadian people yelling at each other. I automatically thought of this
stereotype and found out it wasn't true.
6. The dangers of falling
into a “Single story” can be many things you cannot meet people and sometimes you’re
scared of them. This is really bad because people of different religions date
and get married all the time. We really need to change this but it is so big in
every country that it will probably never be abolished.
“The single story creates
stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but
that they are incomplete”
This made me really think. Some people in our country
automatically think Arabs are terrorists or somehow connected with them, this is
probably the worst stereotype. Arabs are from these countries that most of
these things happen but the U.S. is just as bad, we just don’t think of it that
way. People threat us we get them back.. That’s the whole ISIS situation, yes it’s
for our safety but were bombing them, we are killing them and probably random civilians
with those bombs that have family’s and feeling and that have probably not have
done anything. Our world isn't fair to anyone.
