Week 6 - Tedx Talk Videos "The Dangers of A Single Story" "Imaginary friends and real world consequences"

This idea of a single story is something that I have already thought about before, and Chimamanda explains it perfectly. In her talk, she explains to us how susceptible we are from an early age. Especially when the stories we hear are the same over and over again. The danger comes from when those stories are used to spread misinformation about a certain subject. Take the Holocaust, for example, Adolf Hitler fabricated a single story to take the lives of millions of innocent people. Everywhere he went he told the people of Germany, and later the rest of Europe, that the Jews were the cause of their countries plagues, corruption, and economic crisis. He repeated that single story so much that eventually, they believed him. To avoid this we must be able to think critically and come to our own conclusions. In an age where we have access to all the information ever conceived by man, we cannot allow ourselves to be fooled by the single stories of the wicked that try to divide us. For Dr. Barnes video, I did not relate as much. I've read all the Harry Potter books and have seen all the movies multiple times but I never got the sense of alief that she described. The concept is really interesting though and I can definitely see it in other people.