conversations.from: human
conversations.value: What could be a title for a book about TEDx, Americanah, Knopf with the genre: Politics & Social Sciences, Social Sciences?
conversations.from: assistant
conversations.value: A title for this book could be 'We Should All Be Feminists'
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: the first four paragraphs for this book
conversations.from: assistant
conversations.value: We Should All Be Feminists
  Anyway, since feminism was un-African, I decided I would now call myself a Happy African Feminist. Then a dear friend told me that calling myself a feminist meant that I hated men. So I decided I would now be a Happy African Feminist Who Does Not Hate Men. At some point I was a Happy African Feminist Who Does Not Hate Men and Who Likes to Wear Lip Gloss and High Heels for Herself and Not For Men.
  You hate men, you hate bras, you hate African culture, you think women should always be in charge, you don't wear makeup, you don't shave, you're always angry, you don't have a sense of humor, you don't use deodorant.
  If we do something over and over, it becomes normal. If we see the same thing over and over, it becomes normal. If only boys are made class monitor, then at some point we will all think, even if unconsciously, that the class monitor has to be a boy. If we keep seeing only men as heads of corporations, it starts to seem "natural" that only men should be heads of corporations.
  I often make the mistake of thinking that something that is obvious to me is just as obvious to everyone else. Take my dear friend Louis, who is a brilliant, progressive man. We would have conversations and he would tell me: "I don't see what you mean by things being different and harder for women. Maybe it was so in the past but not now. Everything is fine now for women." I didn't understand how Louis could not see what seemed so evident.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: four more paragraphs
conversations.from: assistant
conversations.value: I know a Nigerian woman who decided to sell her house because she didn't want to intimidate a man who might want to marry her.
  I know an unmarried woman in Nigeria who, when she goes to conferences, wears a wedding ring because she wants her colleagues to—according to her—"give her respect."
  The sadness in this is that a wedding ring will indeed automatically make her seem worthy of respect, while not wearing a wedding ring would make her easily dismissible—and this is in a modern workplace.
  I know young women who are under so much pressure—from family, from friends, even from work—to get married that they are pushed to make terrible choices.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Delete the last sentence.
conversations.from: assistant
conversations.value: I know a Nigerian woman who decided to sell her house because she didn't want to intimidate a man who might want to marry her.
  I know an unmarried woman in Nigeria who, when she goes to conferences, wears a wedding ring because she wants her colleagues to—according to her—"give her respect."
  The sadness in this is that a wedding ring will indeed automatically make her seem worthy of respect, while not wearing a wedding ring would make her easily dismissible—and this is in a modern workplace.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: the last five paragraphs
conversations.from: assistant
conversations.value: Some people will say a woman is subordinate to men because it's our culture. But culture is constantly changing. I have beautiful twin nieces who are fifteen. If they had been born a hundred years ago, they would have been taken away and killed. Because a hundred years ago, Igbo culture considered the birth of twins to be an evil omen. Today that practice is unimaginable to all Igbo people.
  What is the point of culture? Culture functions ultimately to ensure the preservation and continuity of a people. In my family, I am the child who is most interested in the story of who we are, in ancestral lands, in our tradition. My brothers are not as interested as I am. But I cannot participate, because Igbo culture privileges men and only the male members of the extended family can attend the meetings where major family decisions are taken. So although I am the one who is most interested in these things, I cannot attend the meeting. I cannot have a formal say. Because I am female.
  Culture does not make people. People make culture. If it is true that the full humanity of women is not our culture, then we can and must make it our culture.
  I think very often of my friend Okoloma. May he and others who passed away in that Sosoliso crash continue to rest in peace. He will always be remembered by those of us who loved him. And he was right, that day, many years ago, when he called me a feminist. I am a feminist.
  In these twelve dazzling stories, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie explores the ties that bind men and women, parents and children, Africa and the United States. Searing and profound, suffused with beauty, sorrow, and longing, these stories map, with Adichie's signature emotional wisdom, the collision of two cultures and the deeply human struggle to reconcile them.