My Big Fat Greek Culture Analysis

Culture being the beliefs, way of life, art, and customs that are shared and accepted in a particular society encompasses a great deal and varies significantly as one would imagine. The Greek culture for example is as extensive as it is stern in its discipline among its traditionalists. Nothing in popular culture exemplifies this like the 2002 film “My Big Fat Greek Wedding.” In this film you see a traditional Greek father pressure his daughter into maintaining Greek values and expectations and in the process you observe various aspects of Greek culture including their values, symbols, and language which reflect some of my own personal experience with the Greek culture. “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” offers interesting …show more content…
Gus takes clear pride in claiming to be able to refer any word to its Greek origin and while it’s very much humorous in the film considering he makes half of it up there is an element of truth to that. The Greek language has lent us the brickwork for more than a few word prefixes over the years including but not limited to Biology, which takes its root from “Bio” which means “life” in Greek and Metaphor which takes its root from “Meta” meaning after. This is because of just how far their culture stretches back predating most if not all of todays modern culture thus serving as a model through the years for languages …show more content…
During my junior year at Bayonne High School I started dating a Greek girl from my Biology class. Before I had gone to meet her parents she felt the need to warn me about her father and his attachment to Greek customs even going as far to say he probably wouldn’t like me due to my non-Greek heritage. I brushed it off as paranoia on her part because who would really be so into their culture that they would immediately dismiss someone they didn’t know out of hand? I couldn’t have been more wrong. Her father was an absolute nightmare with very bold, direct, and rude comments being spit out continuously while saying a “Greek boy” would understand his humor. Interestingly enough his wife who was every bit as Greek as him seem embarrassed by her husband’s badgering of me apologizing to me at the end of the night in private and inviting me over again while her husband wasn’t around. This mirrors the behavior portrayed in “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” and leads me to believe that it must be relatively accurate behavior amongst