My Big Fat Greek Wedding

After 14 years, the sequel to the romantic comedy ‘My Big Fat Greek Wedding’ is back at the Box-Office.

I am one who always wants to learn and I frequently emerge myself into cultures in which I feel out of place. I continually attract friends from different cultures and have close friends from Punjab, India as well as Russia, England, and Ireland. My willingness to learn contributes to my ability to assimilate and understand each and everyone’s background, heritage, and religion. My significant other is a second-generation immigrant from a traditional Yemeni family. These traditions are so deep-rooted that his parents would disown him if they learned that their son was dating at all, not to mention dating a white, atheist American; hence the reason his family is unaware of my existence.

“My Big Fat Greek Wedding” stars Nia Vardalos as Toula Portokalos, a 30-year-old daughter in a Greek family living in a city. The movie opens with Toula’s father, Gus Portokalos (Michael Constantine), picking her up in a rain storm and telling her she needs to get married because she is getting old. Toula then recounts her childhood, telling of the difficulties involved with growing up in a Greek family. Toula’s life has been less than stellar to this point, but that all changes when Ian Miller (John Corbett), a teacher at a local school, walks into her parent’s restaurant. It is love at first sight for Toula, but she is too awkward and nervous to converse with the handsome stranger. He leaves.

People who interact with different cultures find that their values and interest are similar and began to see themselves as mates forging an intercultural relationship that turns into marriage.

Balancing two different cultures is a thing that most people from immigrant and/or strong culturally, traditionally rooted families have come accustom to. Over the years they have learned about things that they should or should not do when dealing with a certain culture. For instance, someone who comes from a very conservative family doesn’t wear revealing clothes, unless they are out with their friends and know that their family won’t see them. On contrast people, who don’t have more than one culture might not understand why you cover up so much in front of your parents.

We are all different, we come from different parts of the world, and our culture is different from one another. Be proud of who you are, don’t be ashamed of what you are. There is nothing wrong with adopting other cultures. In this essay, I’m going to compare and contrast Andrea Roman and Amy Tan relationships with their parentsWe are all different, we come from different parts of the world, and our culture is different from one another. Be proud of who you are, don’t be ashamed of what you are. There is nothing wrong with adopting other cultures. In this essay, I’m going to compare and contrast Andrea Roman and Amy Tan relationships with their parents.

Many cultures have certain traditions that are very important to them. For example, the Hmong culture has a tradition about marriage. When a Hmong man wants to get married and start a family, he has to ask two specific men called “Mekoob”, to go with him to his women’s house and formally ask the parents for their daughter’s hand in marriage. They later talk about the wedding plan and the price for everything. The husband and his family have to pay for all the expenses.

Did you ever know that every country has different cultural values and norms that may cause misunderstanding among cultures around the globe? Of course, I didn’t really know that till I migrated from my country to the USA. A long time ago, I believed that the world was filled with homogenous societies which are based upon one culture only and that culture must be my own culture which I must follow as the ethnocentric standard to all other nations in the world. But later, I had experienced living in multi cultural communities and different continents around the globe, such as Africa and Asia, where getting involved in other people’s lives is very common. As a result of my experience, I have realized that American cultural values have less

Some may ask what it means to be a part of a specific culture. It may be believed that it merely means to share the same qualities of race, language, and social beliefs. What is not really known are the rise of expectations to fill, repressed wants and needs, or even the binding religious beliefs. A person must begin to recognize the holdings a culture may have on them and how it affects their free will as an individual.

A person’s culture can influence what they do on a day-to-day basis. This is most obvious in Texas, my home state. Our culture is very strong as we are always promoting companionship and friendliness to anyone and everyone.

My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002) is a Canadian-American film that tells the story of Greek-American, Toula (Fotoula) Portokalos. At thirty, Toula is still waitressing for her family’s restaurant, Dancing Zorbas. Constantly under pressure from her traditional, Greek parents to marry a Greek man and start a family, Toula seeks some distance from the family business. Toula starts attending college classes and eventually begins a new job at her Aunt Voula’s travel agency. After a short period of time in her new position, Toula meets non-Greek school teacher, Ian Miller. The two begin dating and quickly fall in love. Toula is the first in her family to date a non-Greek. Fearful of upsetting her father, Gus, she attempts to keep the

In the film My Big Fat Greek Wedding there are many types of relationships that impacted the interpersonal communication. There are three variables that I thought would be best fit for this film are the relationships of Toula and Maria, Toula and Ian, and Toula and Nick. The first relationship that I thought would be a good example of impacting interpersonal communication is the relationship between Toula and Maria.

In the movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding by Joel Zwick, Toula a single 30-year-old Greek woman struggling against her family's tradition of marrying a Greek man and having Greek children. Or better explained in Toula’s words, “Nice Greek girls are supposed to do three things in life; marry Greek boys, make Greek babies, and feed everyone until the day we die”. But that isn’t what she wants for herself. She wants to go to college and make her own choices, do what makes Toula happy. Toula does everything she can to convince her father, Gus, that it is a good idea for her to go to college and learn more about computers so that she can help improve the restaurant.

Cultural Issues in My Big Fat Greek Wedding I choose My Big Fat Greek Wedding because it is one of my favorite movies and I believe I can relate somehow to this movie since I come from a minority background. Even though the movie was done with some extra humor and exaggerating some aspects of both cultures, the movie has a lot of truth with what America experiences in the present time because in a multiracial country you constantly have to experience the difference each cultures lives and expresses their beliefs. This movie describes perfectly how shocking it could be from one culture to interact with the other without leaving their ideologies and their prejudice of the other culture. This romantic comedy is about a single Greek descendant woman.

Different cultures have different values, and sometimes these differences can be stark. Gender, for example, could prove problematic in countries