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Elizabeth Koh
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29 January 2018
The Dangers of Being Human
Everyday we see the world through a window constructed in our minds. Not knowing
that day to day, in everything we do, we always go back to that same window. This window does
not only limit the world we see and experience, but it also confines us behind the comfort and
isolation of the wall in which we fear to abandon. It is a two dimensional perspective, a denial of
reality, a single story as coined by Chimamanda Adichie. Adichie presents her TED talk about
the dangers of a single story in which she begins her talk about the literature in Nigeria and
