"Danger Of a Single Story" -Brooke Gazzarato

 Quote 1)       When people make stereotypes it is just part of nature to go along with what everyone else is because it seems right. I feel like stereotypes make up a part of a dominant culture in society. So it seems right to think what everyone else believes. When people make up stories, most people tend to believe everything that is said. For example this is how rumours are made. One person goes around and starts something and everyone find out. It's a "single story" that most likely isn't true. But these stories can dehumanize people and really hurt them. People need to get the facts before they just assume everything they hear. 

1)     Sometimes, when you are raised a certain way, which could be based on religion, sexuality, nationality, etc., it can change how you feel about something. If you were raised a certain way, with teachings that seems normal to you, it will be weird going and hearing another teaching. You would just block it out because its not what is "normal" to you. In "The Danger of a Single Story", if you hear something, like a sterotype, that goes along with what is normal in society, then you are just going to go along with it. 

3)     The media plays a huge role in creating single stories. The media plays a role of enforcing single stories because everyone puts their opinion on social media. If one thing gets put that can change everyones opinion and it never goes away. it will be there forever even if it is deleted. So information gets around quicker and it creates a more believable stroy because it is on the internet. Most people tend to believe what they read on the internet because they think it is a reliable source.

6)    A single story perspective is a danger. It shows you have no open-mind and that you lock right onto something. This means single stories can be created more often. If a single story gets around and everyone has the same mind set then they are more likely to occour. As a society we do not want this characterisic. Single stories can break people down and there are dangers of breaking the dignity of people for things that were said hat they have no control over. It gives some people "power" that they don't deserve.