After hearing this, I revised my testimony in a way that forced me to be more open about all my experiences: I really wanted to push myself. I was nervous about sharing my testimony with Ricardo because it was so personal, but after sharing and hearing his statement, I was proud of how honest I had been. From his testimony I learned the point of view of someone who can be considered my opposite in terms of some identities. He wrote about being a person of color and being a man, something I have no experience with. It was interesting to be able to hear how his grandfather set a goal in him to try to achieve greater things and how he felt his mother tries to take advantage of being white because she has lighter skin. I have learned that, although at first glance Ricardo and I do not appear to share the same identities, we both have agent and goal identities. As Iris Young writes in Five Faces of Oppression, groups are not oppressed to the same extent or to the same extent
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