Greek Culture In My Big Fat Greek Wedding

After Toula convinces her father Gus and brother Nick to go to college, she starts to work in her aunt 's travel agency. While working for the agency, she ends up meeting Ian, who is a teacher, and they fall in love (Hanks & Zwick, 2002). Ian goes faster and makes a marriage proposal to which Toula readily accepts. However, the problem comes in because Ian is a non-Greek person and Toula’s father does not want any boy outside the Greek community to marry his daughter. Put differently,

Alongside some jokes, fans will enjoy quick punches about marriages becoming stale and lonely-nest syndrome along with a lot more. "Toula" Portokalos, the protagonist steals the centre space once again. She is still married to her non-Greek partner and is now a wretched mother of a teenage 16-year old girl, of whom she is afraid to lose in the dark world.

My Big Fat Greek Wedding focuses primarily upon the tribulations of Toula, whose Greek heritage invades all aspects of her life, including her relationship with the markedly American, culturally lacking Ian Miller. Toula’s family perpetuates all the customs of a Greek household down to specific female values among which Toula recites, “Nice Greek girls are supposed to… marry Greek boys.” Her heritage emphasizes marriage and breeding within the race, proving that

American sport culture has had many influences that impact how they are today. I believe the ancient greek culture, and society accurately reflects on our sports. There are many variables to american sports that were taken from the greek society. Americans have open gyms and mass training sessions like the greeks had. American sports also have big festivals with sports competitions like the greeks has. Americans also use sports to train, and some to train for war just like the greeks did as well. There are many more ways american sports reflect the greeks, but those are just a few examples.

During Carla’s wedding, the couple recites their own vows to each other. They also try to kiss after every word the preacher says. It is very humorous in and innocence type of way. Carla’s mother comes to the wedding at the end. Elizabeth now shows support for her and Daniel. Daniel has a gift to give Carla at the end. The complete marching band including color guard and majorettes from Daniel’s School plays and marches in a parade down the street in front of the car the couple is sitting in. The movie concludes with a happy ending.

Now, Gus and the rest of the Portokalos must accept their daughter’s choice. Ian is baptized in the Greek orthodox church as an olive branch toward Gus. He learns more about Greek culture and family life, including at an Easter celebration with the family. His parents visit a gigantic, boisterous party attended the entire Portokalos family. Finally, Toula and Ian, who is by now almost completely accepted, get married. At the reception, Gus delivers a touching speech that concludes with the fact the Miller’s and Portokalos come from different cultures, but they are all still people. In the end, Toula and Ian move into a house Gus and Maria bought them next door. The movie concludes with the couple sending their daughter off to Greek school, just like Toula before her.

The first Greek organization to assemble was in 1776 at the College of William and Mary. Fraternities were built to provide friendship and recreation. It has been 239 years since the first fraternity was established and now in 2015, there are 123 fraternities and sororities. There are nine million college students involved in Greek organizations (Glass, Nicole). These members are looking to make friends, to build their resumes, to go to social events, or to learn leadership skills. Each member when joining has the incentive to change some aspect of his or her life (Glass, Nicole). If one has the opportunity to join a Greek life organization he or she should for the reasons of giving back to the community, the higher academic standards, the

The rest of the movie is a celebration of the marriage, where Toula marries her “Greek boy”, and has a child. Her parents buy them a house on the day of their wedding, directly beside theirs.

April is having relationship problems with Bob. One day she overhears Mrs. Radcliff talking about a family friend named Heather Langdon, who is an actress, and comes to find that her and Bob had an affair. She decides what is best for her, and she asks Bob for a divorce and moves out. April has not had much contact with Cheryl

Toula has been raised in a Greek home and still has not married, though all of her siblings have. In the Greek culture a woman is to marry a Greek man, have Greek babies and feed everyone in the family for the rest of their lives. Since Toula has not married she is living with her parents and working in their family restaurant. While working as a hostess she encounters Ian and falls head over heels in love with him. The problem is that he is not Greek; he is actually what her parents would consider a rebel. She hides him from her family for as long as possible, but the truth is revealed. Her family makes it known that without conversion he will not be accepted into their Greek home. He follows through and in the end they are joyful in the outcome of their lives together. They also have Greek children and Toula is able to be the ideal Greek woman.

My Big Fat Greek Wedding is a film that I chose to explain the sociological concepts of sociology. My Big Fat Greek Wedding is not just about planning a wedding, it’s about a crazy Greek family that struggles to accept their daughters boyfriend who is not Greek as part of their family. One of the first concepts that I will chose is culture. In the movie it is perceived that all Greek people own restaurants, subscribe to one religion which is Greek Orthodoxy, and that all Greek people have big and crazy families. This is just a stereotype of what the Greek culture is.

My Big Fat Greek Wedding- This movie is about a Greek woman named Toula, who is the daughter of Gus and Maria Portokalos and a non-Greek man named Ian, who is the son of Rodney and Harriet Miller. The two had many differences in their families and culture. Despite the differences, they fell in love and wanted to be husband and wife, even though Toula’s dad wanter her to marry a Greek man. Throughout the movie they face many obstacles within their families. Toula goes against her cultural norms and challenges the gender role that is traditional in her family and culture. Toula wants to run away with Ian and elope, but Ian will not allow her to leave her family. Instead Ian chooses to be baptized in the Greek Orthidox church to allow him and

Every culture has its own traditions that members try to uphold. In this movie, one tradition that is apparent and is gone back to many times, is the tradition of marrying a Greek man when you are a Greek woman. What some may question, is why does Toula’s father feel like his daughter cannot make her own decision of who she loves? He goes to great lengths to find Greek men for her, and each of them are below the standard she holds for herself. Gus even knows that the men he has chosen are not good enough for Toula. The uncertainty that he expresses when communicating with Ian, but also allowing him to be apart of his tight knit family. Gus views his family as his number one priority, and does not like to upset the balance. Toula’s mother, Maria senses how Gus feels about allowing Ian to be apart of the family, but she puts her uncertainty aside so her daughter can feel the love she has been longing for, for many years. Viewers can see that because she is the last daughter of the family to marry, he also wants to make sure that Ian will be the man she needs him to be. After Gus realizes that Toula has her mind made up, he comes to grips with the fact that Ian is going to be in his life for a long time. Around the time of the wedding, Toula is worried that the stress of marrying outside of her culture is physically ailing her father. What her marriage is going to bring is something that the Portokalos family is not ready for because it is foreign to them.

Ian’s girlfriend, Toula comes from a large family who is extremely tied to their Greek culture; has a strong pride to their culture. In the beginning, Toula seems to be indecisive about dating a guy who is not Greek. She second-guesses herself about dating Ian because of the cultural values and beliefs her family has introduced to her. Toula was always told from her family that the Greeks’ ideal culture is to marry someone who is Greek and have Greek babies.

One of the most remarkable things I found while watching My Big Fat Greek Wedding was how important their heritage was to them, and how important family is in the Greek culture. Throughout the film, Toula Portokalos struggles with accepting her Greek heritage and feels smothered by her loud, out there family. All she wants to do is go back to school for computers and get her life started, but her family wants her to get married and start a family. She falls in love with a non-Greek man, which was taboo in her family. Toula had to prove to her family that her new love was worthy enough to take her hand in marriage.