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Old 10-01-2010, 10:32 PM   #23
Undertoad
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Join Date: Jan 2001
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Excellent video. Excellent POV gvidas.

"All of these stories make me who I am. But to insist on only these negative stories is to flatten my experience, and to overlook the many other stories that formed me. The single story creates stereotypes. And the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue... but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story...The consequence of the single story is that it robs people of dignity. It makes our recognition of our equal humanity difficult. It emphasizes how we are different, rather than how we are similar."

I love that.
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