Chimamanda Adichie reminds us that unless we are exposed to the diversity of the world, our default mental models will create a “single story” of the world, a narrative to help us make sense by making simplistic assumptions that make us comfortable and keep us from having to change.10 The danger, says Adichie, is that with a single story, we make assumptions about people who are different from us that allows us to keep them marginalized.
