Today, I read Nub’s response to Paula Mirando’s article, “Shared Experiences of Multiethnic Children in Stealing Buddha’s Dinner”. Both of us mentioned that the theme of Mirando’s article is to illustrate the experience and hardships of being a multi-cultured person. Nub also mentioned that the character in “Stealing Buddha’s Dinner“, suffers from finding her identity where she isn’t able to fit into the multi-cultures that she is part of. I also mentioned this point, but the difference in our response is that I talked about my first-hand experience, which is the reason why I can relate to that person. Another difference in our response is that Nub wrote the essay more analytically because he included more examples and how those examples help support the theme of the story. On the other hand, I only use minimal examples and most of them support the theme and my own experience. There is one part where Nub mentioned how multicultured felt a “guilt at not being able to identify with all aspects of his or her heritage [which] may lead to anger, shame, or self-hatred” (Mirando, page. 130). I wanted to include this part in my reading response, but I forgot to. I found that interesting how exclusion and leads to people feeling these negative emotions towards themselves.