The more traveling one does the more one begins to realize how skewed the media's narrative is about other countries around the world.

I've lived outside of my native country of the U.S. for many years now and have traveled extensively long enough to see so clearly how biased a culture can become towards other countries when all they hear about those cultures are a single story.

My travels have taken me to many of the places my country warns me about and my experience has always been completely and drastically different then what is reported in the news and popular culture.

Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie tells her story of how we can be programmed for prejudice through the repeated soundbites the media programs us with.

To hear her tell it in this TED talk will open your eyes to a deeper truth of how we are more similar then we are led to believe. I only wish that classrooms and universities around the world would educate us like this video does about how much more similar we are regardless of what culture we come from.