From the TED Web site: “Our lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories. Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice — and warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding.”
How easy it is to read something about a country, a culture, an issue, even our neighbor, and leave it there. We’ve read something, one thing, in a newspaper or a book or a blog, and we feel we now are “up” on it. And we leave it there, facts known, opinion formed.
There are no absolutes and there is no absolute knowledge. Part of what makes life interesting is the unknown and admission that we don’t know everything. The real fun is in trying to wholly know a subject, with the awareness that it is an impossible goal.
