I first watched this three years ago in my Sophomore year of high school. When writer, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was younger she wrote about white people with blue eyes, she couldn't imagine a book with people who were not white. Similarly, a lot of people exclaim how important it is to have representation. White skinned, blue eyed people aren't the only people on Earth. Africans are more than hungry, sick, monsters. There is a reason people leave their country for America. Not all Muslims are terrorists. Lingering on these statements hurst not only them, but us too. There is no single story, about one group. Not one group has a single story; people are complex people have multiple different stories.
The way you create a single story by explaining someone in the same way, over and over, and all of a sudden that is who they are; even if that is not who they are. The danger of a single story is this: it robs people of their humanity. Stories can break, but stories can also repair.
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