My Big Fat Greek Wedding Essay

The movie, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, is a movie about a very large Greek family living in Chicago that has many anthropological themes to language and symbols, cultural art, and religious beliefs. In the movie, both Toula and Ian come from different cultures, where as Toula is from a Greek culture and Ian is from an America culture. The cultural values are different because Toula was brought up in a very loud and large Greek family, while Ian was brought up American in a very calm family. Both Ian’s and Toula’s side of the family have different cultural values, such as with the Greeks, the man likes to be the head of the household, and the women of the household like to cook. As you see in the movie, Toula’s dad wants her to marry a Greek boy and have Greek babies, but all

Where as in the movie, Toula wanted to go to college to study about computers, and her dad got upset and she asked him if he wanted her to do something with her life, and he came back with saying, “Yes, get married, make babies. You look so old.” So, as you see Greeks say things without thinking if it will hurt someone’s feelings. Both Greek and Americans have different worldviews, and view things differently then others. You see the difference in the movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Toula’s family but mostly her dad wants her to marry a Greek boy and have Greek babies, as with Americans, parents aren’t in so much control as who their kids find and marry. I mean all parents want their kids to grow up and find a good person to spend the rest of their life with, but their just not so controlling as the Greeks. In the movie, the dad had a theory of language where he would try and match a word someone says to a Greek word. There were some different themes in My Big Fat Greek Wedding, but one of them was Toula and Ian’s