SSH 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: American Canadian, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Social Sciences and Humanities
• Course: SSH 100
• Professor: Ahmed Ali Ilmi

Document Summary

Ssh 100 lecture 3 the truth about stories by thomas king. Indigenous land rights and culture are important to him. The truth about stories is that"s all we are thomas king. Helps to articulate who they are (the individual) We all have a story to tell. Search for a good world, but never finding it. Use of small talk to move the conversation to more serious talk. A way for people to make sense of the world. The stories change every time they are told (speaker, order of events ) If we believe on story is sacred we must believe the other story is secular king. Good vs bad, hero vs villain, order vs chaos, cooperative vs antagonistic, civilized vs. These categorizations are dangerous, people arbitrarily assign those values but not everything is black and white. There is an in between, a happy medium. Western vs non western conceptual lens.