... a selected few wrote these stories, yet they were accepted by the vast majority because they did not question those scholars or men of intellect who wrote them. For example, Pliny quotes Aristotle in his book when writing about one of the people he encountered, which where half male and half female, Aristotle stated that, "their right breast is that of ... a way to try and depict those who were different than them. Europeans had a preconceived notion of what kind of things and people they would encounter because of the "single story" they had heard over and over. It became the only know...

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