1. Answering How do stories tell us who we are?
By Dario Rainone and Narayan El

2. What are we talking about?
What is a story?
To whom are we referring? "Us" as each individual or "us" as a collective group of people?
3. We are talking about
A story is a narration of something that may or may not have happened.
Different types of stories exist.
Individual and collectivity
4. How do we relate to stories through our lives?
Our lives are constructed from real events and products of our imagination.
Stories do not simply tell us who we are; stories are us.
We are naturally vulnerable and ingenuous to their influence.
5. The single story
It is a unique version of a story
It shows people as one thing,
over and over again, until they
become that thing.
Example: Africans (Chimamanda Adichie)
6. Origins of the single story
How does the phenomenon of the single story occur?
Stories are dependent on power, the ability to make a story the definitive story.
Cultural and economic power to influence and to spread information.
7. Consequences of the single story
Stereotypes, assumptions that are not always untrue, but incomplete.
It makes the recognition of our equal humanity difficult.
8. What happens when it highlights the positive aspects?
It makes recognition of ourunequal humanity difficult.
Example: Italians
9. How do single stories tell us who we are?
Misinformation perpetuates a single story of the world.
Causes hostility and undermines cooperative relations among people.
10. The Myth

It is a story with purpose.

11. Has been around as long as time itself.

It is an expression of the human psyche.