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Adichie's Mistake Of Creating A Single Story

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Adichie accidently made a mistake of creating a single story for the world outside of Nigeria. One of her main stories were, judging a boy based on what she had heard about him, or based her beliefs on the amount of money his family had. There were some different elements that changed the way she viewed people, one of them was a little boy that came to live with her when she was a child, and the other, how her roommate treated her when she travelled to USA. She lived with a middle class family who brought in a young boy from a rural area to live with them. later on, while visiting the family of the little boy. She was astonished as his older brother made a nice basket. She asked herself how could family with such little money make such a thing?.

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