While listening to the Danger of a Single Story, I couldn't help but reflect on past experiences of thinking about other countries or cultures as just a single story. I feel like many people have biases about people and places based on a series of misguided information. They create a one-sided opinion because at the time it is the only thing they know to be true. It's hard to imagine anything else based on that one experience. By opening our eyes to new experiences, new people, new places, by talking, listening, and sharing, I feel like the single story can start to multiply and become a story with many chapters and characters. When this happens, maybe people can start to identify with one another, find compassion, find kindness, and find a commonality that brings us closer together instead of driving us further apart.
