Ted Talk 5 Chimamanda Adichie

I think that the most important idea from this vieo is that many of the stories we read and write are all the same. She talked about how being raised in Eastern Nigeria affected the ways she saw things. Since Nigeria had been colonized by whites everything she read as a child was generated by whites from England and the U.S. This, she said, affected the way she percieved things in the world. She loves to write stories, and since she read stories about whites she wrote about whites. She said that she wrote stories that almost paralleled the ones she read as a child. Even though she liven in Nigeria where there were almost no whites that was all she wrote about because it was all that she read. However when she started to read African stories she said that her eyes were opened to what could be in literature. She started to realize that there was a place in the world for people like who came from other countries. She attended college in the U.S. and her roommate was astonished that Africa was more than a war zone racked by poverty. This she said was a result of Western Literature. As in our country the media focuses on the bad things that happen there. She also shows another example  of people with a single story. She uses the example of what people see Mexicans. Many people see them only as immagrants that are here illegaly. This she says is a single story, it is the  one way people see a group of people.
One of her effective techniques is using lots of her experiences in her talk. She brings in a personal feel that connects her to the audience. She shows the way people percieve things and how often times it is only one way. This really makes you think about the way we percieve the things in our lives. Her presentation was pretty stiff in my opinion, there wasn't a lot of emotion or humor in her talk. But, for this talk I think that it worked because her topic wasn't a light one. It seemed better presented that way because it makes you think about your life. What matters from this video is that there are many stereotypes in the world. And that this is dangerous because if you only see the stereotype you may overlook the beauty or worth of something.