last week titled “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” which shows that a Greek woman (Toula Portokalos) who’s in her 30’s still haven’t married yet and all her dad wants is for her to marry a Greek Boy but the woman doesn’t have one yet. Then she took computer classes and work at her aunt’s agency‚ finally saw an American boy who she saw years before also single. Then they met and talked finally both of them have fallen in love. But the problem of them is that she can’t marry a non-Greek man which is the American
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Fotoula "Toula" Portokalos (Nia Vardalos) is going through an early midlife crisis. At thirty‚ she is the only woman in her family who has "failed". Her family expects her to "marry a Greek boy‚ make Greek babies‚ and feed everyone until the day she dies." Instead‚ Toula is stuck working in the family business‚ a restaurant‚ "Dancing Zorba’s". In contrast to her "perfect" sister‚ Athena (Stavroula Logothetis)‚ Toula is frumpy and cynical. She fears she’s doomed to be stuck with her life as it is
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Film Conceptualization Paper My Big Fat Greek Wedding‚ is a 2002 film‚ that portrays the main character‚ Toula Portokalos and the conflict that occurs after she decides to marry someone outside of her culture. In the film‚ Toula is the middle child of an immigrant family that proudly represents their Greek Heritage. The most prominent cultural belief is that Toula must marry a Grecian man. With the assistance of her mother and her aunt‚ Toula is able to attend college and work for her aunt’s travel
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The movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding is a very clear example cultural diversity. Cultural diversity is differences based on cultural‚ ethnic and racial factors. This movie was about a Greek female‚ named Toula Portokalos‚ who was embarrassed by her culture. Her father‚ Gus only wants her to do three things: get married to a greek boy‚ have kids with a greek boy and cook greek food. Gus is ethnocentric‚ this means that he believes that being Greek is better than being in any other culture. In the beginning
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My Big Fat Greek Wedding Characterization: Gus Portokalos In the movie‚ ‘My Big Fat Greek Wedding”‚ Gus Portokalos is the father of the main character‚ Toula Portokalos‚ and is the patriarch of the Portokalos family. He is portrayed as a man who has a lot of pride for his country and can be ethnocentric if his ideas are different from others. He wants Toula to marry a Greek man and doesn’t want Toula to leave him. However‚ Toula falls in love with a non-greek man‚ Ian. This causes Gus to show ethnocentrism
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The movie‚ My Big Fat Greek Wedding‚ is about two people from different cultures and how they come together to be married. Toula Portakalous‚ is a thirty year old‚ socially awkward shy women who works as a waitress in her family owned restaurant. She has never been in a proper relationship and her family wants nothing more than for her to get married to a Greek man‚ but after years of trying to get her to date they have slowly given up hope. After Toula takes a job at her aunt’s travel agency‚ she
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During the movie‚ My Big Fat Greek Wedding‚ there was a lot of positive and negative communication that influenced the main character’s life decisions. The story is about a young woman‚ named Toula‚ that is of Greek decent who is fearful of being stuck in the life she is now living. She is a frumpy girl that works in her family’s restaurant because she has not been able to find a Greek man to marry‚ and because of this‚ her family claims that she is old and has failed in life. She is allowed to
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How My Big Fat Greek Wedding can be viewed in relationship to anthropological concepts of endogamy and family acceptance of marriage to non-Greek partners Professor Rebecca D. Gorman People and Cultures of the World - ANT 3212 University of North Florida By Laurie Kirkland April 14‚ 2013 How My Big Fat Greek Wedding can be viewed in relationship to anthropological concepts of endogamy and family acceptance of marriage to non-Greek partners Introduction My Big Fat Greek Wedding
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My Big Fat Cross-Cultural Encounters Essay When you come from a different culture‚ especially when you are so attached to that culture‚ like in My Big Fat Greek Wedding‚ it becomes very difficult to have to go against your usual cultural ways. Trying to please your parents and yourself can even become a challenge‚ when the two of you want alternative things‚ and have such contrasting point of views. When it comes to flowing in with mainstream society while being raised a certain way‚ life becomes
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An Intercultural Analysis of My Big Fat Greek Wedding GDUFS SEIB1104 Nicole Guan As a typical intercultural movie‚ My Big Fat Greek Wedding is about Toula‚ a lower middle class Greek American woman who fell in love with a non-Greek upper middle class “white Anglo-Saxon Protestant” Ian Miller. They overcame a series of difficulties and eventually held a big fat Greek wedding. This movie shows us how Greek Americans live‚ reflecting the conflicts between Greek culture and American culture in a humorous
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