{"id":5968,"date":"2020-04-24T19:57:01","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T23:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/?p=5968"},"modified":"2020-04-24T20:07:32","modified_gmt":"2020-04-25T00:07:32","slug":"event-post-2-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/2020\/04\/24\/event-post-2-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Event Post 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I watched Chimamanda Nggozi Adiche&#8217;s TED talk entitled &#8220;The Danger of a Single Story.&#8221; This talk fit really well with our discussion of narratives and storytelling this semester. She warns of using a single story and applying it to all people, places, or things of the same type. This is actually a logical fallacy, called the fallacy of composition. I found myself trying to think of times that I succumbed to a single story. This mostly happens when I meet people from different cultures and backgrounds, and let my limited knowledge, or single story, affect how I see and treat them. I think this TED talk can help people be more aware that we have implicit biases and work to correct them. It also speaks to the importance of getting knowledge from a diverse set of sources, and being willing to tell your own story.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The danger of a single story\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.ted.com\/talks\/chimamanda_ngozi_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I watched Chimamanda Nggozi Adiche&#8217;s TED talk entitled &#8220;The Danger of a Single Story.&#8221; This talk fit really well with our discussion of narratives and storytelling this semester. She warns of using a single story and applying it to all people, places, or things of the same type. This is actually a logical fallacy, called [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4675,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading-responses"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4675"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}