- What are the dangers of a single story? Only knowing a single story about someone means you only see that story. You would put them in a stereotype that they more than likely don´t appreciate.
- What are some assumptions that you have about other people or groups of people(AKA your single version of their story.) A stereotype that I often stick by is if your overly thin your more than likely on drug or anorexic.
- Where did you get this idea from? Well, I grew up around this stereotype and my parents often point out overly thin people while we´re in public and secretly call them names; usually along the lines ¨crackhead¨.
- Have you had an interaction with this person or group of people, and was this idea that you already have of them actually true? I have, sadly enough, more than once in my lifetime.
- What are some assumptions people make about you? Some assumptions would have to be that I´m popular, nice, or really quiet and shy.
- Are they accurate? I would like to consider myself nice, but I am definitely not popular. I can be quiet and sometimes I do feel shy.
- Do you feel that people´s idea of you matches how you actually are? Only some what, it misses big things about how I look at people and the world.
- How does their version of your story differ from your version of your story? I´m not completely positive this is how people stereotype me, but when I am home I´m usually more open, but I still can´t really communicate with strangers very well, so I am shy. I do stupid things for the people I love even if its underappreciated, but I don´t have a whole lot of friends and not a whole lot of people try to communicate with me.
- Why is it important to recognize the importance of multiple view points? I feel that it would be important to recognize multiple view points because you might not know what a person is going through or what they are thinking about and you don´t want to think about it one way when it could be another. You should not stick to one story.
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