“How impressionable and vulnerable we are in the face of a [single] story – particularly as children”

In her collection of personal tales, novelist Chimamanda Adichie, warns of the danger of hearing a single story about another person or country:

I did not know that people like me could exist in literature…
“I had a single story of him being poor…
My (American) roommate had a single story of Africa…
I had bought into the single story of Mexicans…”

Delicious and important watching!