**Draft from 3/22/18 posting on 8/27/18 because it is something I can still look back on and enjoy and deserves a spot on the blog.**
If someone were to ask you, "Who are you?" you would probably start listing off personal traits about yourself or things you're involved in. For example, I would tell people I'm a sophomore in college, a growth group leader on my hall, I'm a twenty-year-old woman, and I'm pretty average sized. However, based on just the things I listed, there are so many things about myself one would not know. I know many other people who look and seem very similar to me but are in fact very different. We have different likes and dislikes, opinions, and personal experiences.
Currently, I am taking a class called Psychology of Women. Last night, (yes, it's a night class) we talked about how people often only see a single part of our story and assume that's all there is to us. We watched a TED talk (https://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story) where a woman shared her experience with having people assume things about her because of the single-story thought about people like her. This made me begin to think about the different single stories that people assume about me because of things like me being a woman, a Christian, a college student, etc. People hear one story about a group of people and assume things to be true for all members. For example, because I am a Christian, people could assume I hate anyone who's not a Christian and wish to not associate with them. While some Christians may be like that, I am not.
We each have our own unique stories. We may decide to share it with others or keep most of it to ourselves. However, people will continue to judge others on a single story that describes them.
If someone were to ask you, "Who are you?" you would probably start listing off personal traits about yourself or things you're involved in. For example, I would tell people I'm a sophomore in college, a growth group leader on my hall, I'm a twenty-year-old woman, and I'm pretty average sized. However, based on just the things I listed, there are so many things about myself one would not know. I know many other people who look and seem very similar to me but are in fact very different. We have different likes and dislikes, opinions, and personal experiences.
Currently, I am taking a class called Psychology of Women. Last night, (yes, it's a night class) we talked about how people often only see a single part of our story and assume that's all there is to us. We watched a TED talk (https://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story) where a woman shared her experience with having people assume things about her because of the single-story thought about people like her. This made me begin to think about the different single stories that people assume about me because of things like me being a woman, a Christian, a college student, etc. People hear one story about a group of people and assume things to be true for all members. For example, because I am a Christian, people could assume I hate anyone who's not a Christian and wish to not associate with them. While some Christians may be like that, I am not.
We each have our own unique stories. We may decide to share it with others or keep most of it to ourselves. However, people will continue to judge others on a single story that describes them.
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