After reading both of the articles, “The Art of Social Change” by Kwame Appiah and the “She Ran From the Cut…” by Jina Moore, conversation plays a key role in both of them. In the first article by Appiah, they discussed foot binding, which was a huge problem in China. Organization’s were made in order to try and stop people from binding women’s feet because people realized how wrong an unethical it is to do that to women. They used to think that binding women’s feet made them more beautiful and that it was a symbol of a higher status. In the other article by Jina Moore, she discussed the issue of female genital cutting. Specifically the story about Ms. Leng’ete. She was born into a culture that performed female genital cutting. The people believed that a woman was not a woman until she went through the process of genital cutting. Ms. Leng’ete refused to do the cutting ceremony and her whole community saw her as a bad example and no one would let their children play with her. She used her voice to talk to the elders to show them how wrong it was. And eventually, places abandoned the whole idea of genital cutting. By using conversation, people finally realized how wrong these practices were and the percentages of what were getting done was significantly decreased.
