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In the Ted Talk titled “The Danger of a Single Story”, speaker Chimamanda Adichie discusses how people stereotyped after she moved to America from Nigeria basically telling her that she should follow her culture like other authors. She’s very confused why they tell her this when the novel she wrote wasn’t targeted at a specific audience. “And so, I began to realize that my American roommate must have throughout her life, seen and heard different versions of this single story, as had a professor, who once told me that my novel was not ‘authentically African’” (7:24, Adichie) In the novel “All You Can Ever Know” by Nicole Chung, the character, Nicole herself, also is stereotyped after being adopted by white parents and being sent to an all white school, she does not understand why they would make fun of her this way, especially using her adoption against her. Instead, he pulled his eyes into slits. His voice turned shrill as he sneered, ‘You’re so ugly, your own parents didn't even want you’ It was the first time anyone had ever used my adoption as an insult, and it would have been shocking and painful enough without the eyes, the broken singsong chant. He screwed up his face into a squint, asking how I could see. ‘Me Chinee, me can’t see!’” (14, Chung When both Chimamanda and Nicole were assimilating to different countries, why might stereotyping be the first thing people turn to?
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Saeed is from Somalia he moved because his homeland was at war. The people he moved with were his immediate family. he immigrated to a small town and he loves soccer. during a soccer game, Saeed scores an amazing goal set up by tom Bouchard and after that tom and Saeed become friends and both try to understand different cultures themselves.
What I'm seeing in my book is that people don't think Saeed has the right documentation and paperwork you need for sports because they have never seen them playing for the soccer team before and the rival team.
The book Out of Nowhere by Maria Padian follows a teenager named Tom Bouchard the book is based in Maine. tom is really into soccer the school he goes to is having a bunch of migrants move into their town and school one of them is Saeed. Saeed is not fluent in English but he can speak enough to get people to understand him. He comes from Somalia where a war is going on. Tom recruited Saeed to play soccer for their school.
Tom's uncle does not like having all the new immigrants he thinks that there just there to collect welfare. " Our ancestors came here to work. These people came here to collect welfare, he fumed"(10 Padian). His uncle Paul is saying this after his older sisters said that there just like when their grandparents came from Canada. He turns to stereotypes because of how he is. he would get up early and do physical labor to make his money.
Saeed moved with his immediate family from Somalia because it had become a warzone since the attacks on 9/11. They moved to Maine and he is known for being a really good soccer player. Tom helps him learn the American culture and Saeed does the same.
I think it is because people aren't used to being around others that are part of such different cultures and the things they do differently. "One day I saw this Somali girl on all fours on the staircase landing...I heard one guy say, 'Dude, what is she doing?'" (Padian, 9)
I think that's a good explanation to stereotyping, suddenly being around other cultures would definitely make an impact on how you treat others.
