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    lives. My knowledge of these concepts was challenged when asked to relate these notions to a movie. During the time that I was watching the movie, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, I realized myself grasping onto what was going on and being able to relate certain scenes and situations to topics I had previously learned about. Interactions in My Big Fat Greek Wedding display concepts of conflict and politeness theory, which can be pointed out in a few specific scenes. During the movie, I found that these

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    “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” is a charming romantic comedy that explores cultural differences in a combination of adorable romance and cute humor. The story revolves around Toula, a thirty-year-old Greek American single woman, who lives with her family in the suburb of Chicago. Like many obedient Greek daughters, she works in her family’s business, a restaurant called “Dancing Zorba’s.” Toula belongs to a traditional collective upbringing where all good daughters are expected to marry from their ethnic

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    the movie explorers,and many sociological point and many problems as well.This movie is interesting because to me also show the values of immigrants and how immigrants live in foreign country , and how they keep culture and habits. The movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding is about a 30-year old and single woman named Toula who has lived a very Greek life style but she fall in love to non Greek man and this was the problem for her family because when she was young she kept every Greek rules. Toula went to

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    The film My Big Fat Greek Wedding takes place in a Chicago Greek Community background where Toula Portokalosa and her family live comfortably. Toula’s father, Gus, is only interested in regards to seeing his daughter get engaged to a man with Greek background (Hanks & Zwick, 2002). On the other hand, Toula, who is 30 years old, is increasingly becoming concerned about her age and thinks that she may be time barred as far as getting a marriage partner is concerned. For this reason, she is willing

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    My Big Fat Cultural Wedding Essay

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    applied social significance; couples see the most value in a marriage celebration which allows them to flaunt their unique qualities as individuals while simultaneously modeling the long-standing customs of preceding weddings. In the 2002 film, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, director Joel Zwick illustrates the

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    ACCULTURATION level of at least 2 main/lead film characters. Elaborate as to which factors led you to make these determinations for each character (14.28 Possible Points). 100 word minimum between the two Character #1 The lead character in the movie, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, is Fortula “Tula” Portokalos. The whole movie is set in her point of view and is narrated by her as well. This movie is about her life and how she grows as a person. She is a strong character that helps bring down cultural barriers.

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    2.2 My Big Fat Wedding (2002) This movie tells about a 30-year-old Greek woman who had not married yet fell in love with a Turk man. The Greek woman was Tortula Portokalos and the Turk man was Ian Miller. Tortula’s father, Mr. Portokalos, was ‘very Greek’ who was very assertive in maintaning Greek cultures, one of them was a culture that a Greek has to marry a Greek. That was why Tortula and Ian dated secretly until one day their relationship was known by Tortula’s relative. Their relationship were

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    Family Analysis of “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” In the 2002 movie, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, one can find many interesting family details. The story is about a Greek woman, Toula Portokalos, who falls in love with a non-Greek man, how she gets her family to accept him, and how she sees herself as a Greek individual. As for structure, the family is very patriarchal in nature. This is evidenced by the way in which the women in the Portokalos family goes about breaking the news that Toula wants to

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    The college of New RochelleCultural Issues in HealthcareProf:Movie: My Big Fat Greek WeddingThe movie that I have chosen in order to determine the culture diversity was My Big Fat Greek Wedding. My Big Fat Greek Wedding is a romantic comedy about Toula Portokalos, a thirty-year-old Greek American woman who feels like she failed at being a typical “Greek girl.” As a Greek girl she is expected to marry a Greek boy, have Greek babies, and “feed everyone until the day she dies.” In the Greek culture

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    The film, My Big fat Greek Wedding, is a nice betray on an American immigrant family and the tension that exists between many immigrant parents who want their kids to marry a person from their own ethnic background, and those kids who find partners from different ethnics in the great American “melting pot.” The movies tells the life story of Toula, a 30-year-old woman who lives with her Greek parents, Gus and Maria, in their little Chicago home, but who is sad and lost, because she thinks she’s too

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