Amanda Stuart Fisher Bearing Witness Summary

Amanda Stuart Fisher’s article “Bearing Witness” is a short reading explaining issues in our contemporary society. The reading discusses feminism frequently, which is the support for women's rights to improve the equality of both sexes. A takeaway from the reading is how us as white men have a hard time fully understand someone else's culture, and how we must take steps to mitigate this closed minded view. This relates with the reading that was titled “You Just Made The Blueprint To Suit Yourselves” by David Kerr. He describes the Yao people having a very “unique culture which has been influenced by nineteenth-century contacts with the Swahili” (page 102). By having a unique culture, it makes it more challenge for people to view their culture