Reflecting on my own assumptions I have discovered how constant stereotypes and stigmatization can be regardless of our best efforts to embrace it and stay open-minded, reminders of how language may be misinterpreted and be perpetuated in false narratives may be found in Wainaina, Miner and Ngozi's work on TEDTalks. 

Wainaina's ''How to Write About Africa'' uncovers the Western desire to exoticize and stereotype Africa reducing its generous diversity of cultures and people to plain describe representation, and Miner's ''Body Ritual Among the Nacirema'' provided an additional eye-opening example of how cultural practices can be misinterpreted and misunderstood when looking from an outsiders view which made me re-evaluate how I interpret different traditional practices and it made me see how important it is to be respectful about other peoples cultures.

The essential requirement to question prevailing narratives and uncertainty of attaching to one story were also called into attention by Ngozi and Williams TEDTalks, while Willam's focused on the part media participated in forming our identities and determining our perceptions Ngozi's argument focused on how limited perspectives can promote prejudice and diminish certain groups.

In conclusion I've grown to become more aware of my own habits to stereotype and classify people based on their external aspects whether positive or negative, these assumptions can contribute to the negative narrative and create ''otherness'' going forward people should be committed to questioning their own biases seeking out different perspectives and challenging the support of stigmatization and stereotypes and by so doing we will be contributing to a more sympathetic world where people value differences rather than ignore them.