There are plenty of dangers recorded throughout time of the hazardous plight that is the one sided story. The lack of perspective thereof of other culture and ideals leads to a plague of xenophobia, racism, and general isolationism. The dehumanization of fellow man to something as small as a single, tunnel vision perspective of what is to be assumed as the truth. People even assume that they have the only perspective, that they are the saviors of these subhuman people, calling them Pagans, and expecting thanks for the atrocities committed in the name of some foreign and blunt single story. “T’was mercy brought me from my Pagan land” People hold perspectives like this and assume that they’re right. It’s a vicious part of the American Dream that the average person will choose to ignore, plugging their ears and squeezing their eyes shut, trying to drown out the bitter truth, continuing to live the fantasy of their choosing. Their way is the only way to them, but with this Ted Talk, that perspective is challenged. By humanizing the people subjected to single story perspectives, we can move further as a society, and think twice before casting an assumption on people we are unfamiliar with. |