opposing viewpoints final
Kierra Mayfield
Dr. Ren
Core 101
13 November 2014
Stereotyping
Chimamanda Adichie uses the phrase “The Danger of a Single Story.” She states “it robs people of dignity. It makes our recognition of our equal humanity difficult. It emphasizes how we are different rather than how we are similar”. Adichie was referring to stereotyping or is what she calls “The Danger of a Single Story.” A single story is an oversimplified, usually pejorative, attitude people hold toward those outside one’s own experience who are different. Adichie says “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.” When she stated that it brought me back to my childhood because I remember as a young African American girl growing up with a bunch of Caucasians. I used to get judged because I was black and many kids thought that I came from Africa and that I wasn’t smart or that I didn’t have the ability to read or write because I was African American. They were basically calling me dumb and were grouping all African Americans in that category and I just thought oh they were just joking around, but I came to realize that they weren’t joking. They were kids who were saying things that they have over heard about in their household or have been taught growing up. Stereotyping is still an issue in society today and I feel as though everyone stereotypes. There are many different viewpoints from every individual in the world from their race, background, gender, as well as their age groups.
According to Joi Downing, stereotyping is formed many different ways and for many different reasons. Joi states that “stereotyping is formed to describe a person or to make judgments about a person.” She believes they are formed by social media and what people where taught when growing up. Downing says she doesn’t believe that they were formed in today’s time but that they have evolved from the
Dr. Ren
Core 101
13 November 2014
Stereotyping
Chimamanda Adichie uses the phrase “The Danger of a Single Story.” She states “it robs people of dignity. It makes our recognition of our equal humanity difficult. It emphasizes how we are different rather than how we are similar”. Adichie was referring to stereotyping or is what she calls “The Danger of a Single Story.” A single story is an oversimplified, usually pejorative, attitude people hold toward those outside one’s own experience who are different. Adichie says “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.” When she stated that it brought me back to my childhood because I remember as a young African American girl growing up with a bunch of Caucasians. I used to get judged because I was black and many kids thought that I came from Africa and that I wasn’t smart or that I didn’t have the ability to read or write because I was African American. They were basically calling me dumb and were grouping all African Americans in that category and I just thought oh they were just joking around, but I came to realize that they weren’t joking. They were kids who were saying things that they have over heard about in their household or have been taught growing up. Stereotyping is still an issue in society today and I feel as though everyone stereotypes. There are many different viewpoints from every individual in the world from their race, background, gender, as well as their age groups.
According to Joi Downing, stereotyping is formed many different ways and for many different reasons. Joi states that “stereotyping is formed to describe a person or to make judgments about a person.” She believes they are formed by social media and what people where taught when growing up. Downing says she doesn’t believe that they were formed in today’s time but that they have evolved from the