Chimamanda Adichie, a Nigerian author, conscientiously digs deep into the subject on stereotypes. For a long period of time, the mainstream opinion of a universal beauty is blonde hair and pallid skin. But girls like her, with “the skin of chocolate” also exist. The stereotypes people have imposed on her were “Nigerian people cannot speak English well” “Nigerian people don’t know how to use a stove” “the abject immigrant” and so on. Such stereotypes are ubiquitous, but she is trying her best to write about excluded people like her to get across to other people.
The world is full of different stories, but if we limit them to a single story, it would be too shallow.