I found Gloria Anzaldua's Essay a little more interesting than Edaward Said's. From my understanding of the piece she wrote mostly about "la mestiza" which means parentage. She struggled from being the product of different cultural background, and not wanting to be more loyal to one than the other. I was also able to make a connection of Anzaldua's to Said's "Reflections on Exile", especially in the section where she states that "as a mestiza I have no country, my homeland cast me out.." This I thought directly correlated with Said's idea of nationalism. The two are very much similiar in that to be an exile is to be an outcast of one's own country, yet with nationalism, it asserts a kind of "belonging in and to a place, a people, a heritage" (Said 176), which doesn't really exist, because we are all a part of the whole. As Anzaldua states " I have no country...yet all countries are mine...". I thought it was interesting how two such very different writers were able to write about the same idea, but in such a different way, and making it all connect. I fairly enjoyed reading both pieces.