The story from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie demonstrates her experience as a Nigerian in Africa. Throughout her growing experience, she met all kinds of people who come to know her with prejudice towards the African. They only hear the single story from the novels or news written by westerners who also learn the biased knowledge due to reasons like political, race or even gender.
Chimamanda’s example of her own prejudice toward the servant’s poverty, other’s prejudice on her about African’s living condition and development status and the general assumption of Mexicans’ crimes, with an unreasonable superiority complex. These single stories are shaped by multiple reasons, including culture and customs, education and most importantly, politics. The way of telling the story may be easily changed under the influences of political power and forces. For most of us as a story reader, the only way to perceive a comprehensive story is to read from various sources and jump out of the single story. The paradigm that rooted in our mind may blind us from the truth and distort the way we communicate with others. This increases the gap between different countries and races. Just like the article said that the single story emphasizes the differences between people rather than our similarities. Many people are unaware of their preference for a single story as it seems more interesting and unique.
When Chimamanda was conscious about this issue and turn to write the story by herself, she has the chance to review all the story happens on her or around her. She finally noticed the importance of a comprehensive and just perspective for a culture and its dignity. This inspires us that when writing a story, as a storyteller, we should also be cautious about the misleading part in our narration. The word has its power on humanity and culture and can be used to shape a nation’s characteristic and future.