Challenging Stereotypes

I think this quote connects to what we have learned, read, and watched in Women’s Worldwide Lit. Last class, we spent watching Adichie’s speech on “A Single Story”. I connected this quote with her ideas that no person or place has just a single story. A single story creates stereotypes and since that single idea/thought/phrase is repeated over and over, it can become the only thing we think. Nigeria was stereotyped as an uneducated, poverty ridden, tribal music area, when in reality, Adichie was very knowledgeable, educated, successful, spoke English and had a positive childhood as she grew up in Nigeria. She did not fall into the single story or “stereotypes” of Nigeria.