StoryLab
I chose the TedTalk videos for this week's story lab.
These two videos are about creating this false narrative about people on your head before you really even meet a people group or that specific person. The "Danger of a Single Story" TedTalk touches on creating these stereotypes about people groups that you have never even interacted with. The woman that is giving the TedTalk is from Africa, and when she came to the United States no one thought that she had even been around modern technology. They had created this single story that they had heard since they were young and did not just educate themselves on the topic. And this happens with people all over the United States, even if they are not foreigners. They could be underprivileged or even just a different race and people will still treat them as if they know them.
That gets into the second TedTalk. Jennifer Barnes likes to reference fictional characters all throughout her speech. The more and more we watch these shows, the more we think we really get to know these people on these shows. But in reality, we have no clue what they are really like because they are not real and we will never meet them. We create these connections to false characters and treat them as if they are super close to them in real life. And this creates a falsehood that they would not even feel upset if something happened to someone they had never met in real life. The delusion of treating fictional characters above real people is a danger in society today. But, reading fiction can increase your emotional awareness and help you relate to someone else. The danger between fiction and reality is still being researched though, and if people can start to link the two then I think society will be in a better place.
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