Question

Hi, I need to find the general purpose, specific purpose, the central idea for the ted talk of the danger of a single story. Here is the link to ted talk on YouTube pls help

https://youtu.be/D9Ihs241zeg

Answer 1

A) General Purpose : To make understand that every thing has many stories and how single stories change our mindset.

B) Specific Purpose : To understand Stereotypes

C) Central Idea :

The Speaker gives several examples of about how single story of a person or thing or region changes the mindset of the individual and his response to a situation like

1. Single story of Americans

2. Single story of Mexicans

And other.

She explains how we generalize things based on single story that we come across about an individual or region. According to the speaker there will be several stories to one thing and single story creates stereotypes.

According to the speaker one can create a single story by "show a people as one thing, as only one thing, over and over again and that is what they become".

Speaker say and I quote "The problem with the stereotype is not that they are untrue, but they are incomplete. One story becomes only story".