A Single Story
This TED talk made me really reconsider how I view others and how I many times have been affected by a single story. I believe many news articles and social media often only tell one side of the story which in turn leads to prejudices and assumptions that are not necessarily true. To tell only one side of a story is like only viewing an area from an aerial view, yes you may see the top and overall landscape, yet can you see the color of the leaves on the trees and things like this? No, no you can't, so in this way you never can have the full story. Many times I believe that single stories begin from prejudices or from what others have been brought up to think and taught. I believe telling a single story is something that we as a society has always done. The interesting part of this is that we through our different backgrounds all have multiple views from what we were taught on various subjects and such. We openly accept and do not question what we are taught therefore when something unlike what we are taught is shown or brought up, we readily attack the idea or different perspective. I believe the only true way to stop single stories is to go and experience first hand for yourself. Tell others about your experience with certain people, or a certain place and tell unbiasedly. Tell based on observation and facts, not only on what you think people want to hear. We need to be open minded and take what we hear with a grain of salt.
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