I watched the Ted talk of the woman talking about the dangers of feeding people a single story over and over again and showing a type of person as only one way, and how that is what they become in the eyes and minds of the people who are reading or learning about this type of person. It was a fantastic speech and certainly eye opening. Because as the woman talked about what she read as a young child over and over again, I thought about myself as a white American. And what my views of other cultures were based on the literature I read. What a dangerous dangerous thing. And the way she talked about the media coverage of Mexicans for example. I so worry about these young impressionable minds getting caught up in this type of media and being sheltered from books that show a variety of ethnicities.
