My Big Fat Greek Wedding

Her family is native to Greece and they moved to North America. Over the years they picked up several different habits that Americans had, from the way the spoke to the way they walked. Toula attended Greek school, she was taught how to ‘live Greek’, meaning she learned how to speak and write in Greek, and she learned all about her native culture. After Ian and Toula met, Ian experienced acculturation, he learned all…

American romantic comedy is My Big Fat Greek Weeding. The movie directed by Joel Zwick. Also movie’s writer is Nia Vardalos, who acts the character of Toula in the movie. The movie is intercultural because it compares the American and Greek cultures reveal the differences. We can see these differences in many scenes of the movie such as family relationships, nationalism, individualism and collectivism. Firstly, main characters are Toula Portokalos, a 30-year-old single Greek girl living in…

The word ‘ethno’ is Greek and refers to a people, nation or cultural grouping, while ‘centric’ comes from Latin and refers to the center, of course. The term ethnocentrism refers to the inclination for each society to place its cultural patterns as the center of things. It is the practice of comparing one’s cultural practices to another and finding the other to be mediocre. Ethnocentrism is a human reaction found worldwide in all known societies, in all groups or clubs, and in mostly all…

The richest people in the world are commonly businessmen, mainly because they simply don't stop making money. Athletes get it pretty big as well, but celebrities actually do well in the money-making business too. Have you ever thought how amazing would it be like to live like a celebrity? You're famous all over the world, you have millions of fans, you get to work with the biggest celebrities of all time, and the best thing is that you get to earn multi-millions in every project you make,…

Family/Peers- Family is a big supported when it comes to shaping gender roles on their children. Like many cultures family is everything, they shape who we are from day one. Within a traditional family, a husband and wife conceive children and on the day they are born they are reared…

The Portokalos family was a vibrant Greek family that was stubborn and exclusive of non-Greeks. The family continued to grow but the main character Toula, couldn’t seem to do anything that pleased her family. Toula felt lost and out of place in her crowded family. Ian, a dashing young man, was looking for a girl who…

to humane organizational structures. Throughout these past few months, the most enlightening aspects for me have been the discussion boards that I have experienced with my group, and therefore I have created an artifact that is composed of three…

appeared more and more in grossing films. One of the most well-known movies depicting interracial marriage during Generation X is the film “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” directed by Joel Zwick. The film describes a Greek family that follows Greek tradition to the tee. Many Greek families push you to marry someone else of Greek descent. The movie tells of a Greek woman who falls in love with a Jewish-American man and shows how the two families clash. In the end, the family, like many other people…

Africa a lot back then.The definition of culture to me is a way of life that you hold dear to you and you pass it on to your kids. When most people think of African culture they mostly think of hair and dance, and even tho those things played a pretty big role in African society, there is a lot to learn when it come to it. There are over 800 ethnic groups in Africa, each with its own language, religion, and culture. So in this essay not only will I be talking about their culture but how it…

RTC 1- Romero, “Bonds of Sisterhood-Bonds of Oppression” In the “Bonds of Sisterhood,” the women are the only ones doing the housework. They were at first fighting for their feminist rights to do work outside of the home. However, because of their fighting to work, they were pushed to do other people 's housework as a job. The husbands also encouraged this as well. The author states “Although the system of gender domination places of housework on women, middle class women have financial…