Toula's Love In 'Cultural Differences In The Film'

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30-year old Toula has already passed her expiration date based of her Greek background as what has been said in the first scene in the movie, her family dreamed about her wedding ever since she was 15 years old, but she never found the one. Toula’s father always keeps remanding her that she’s old and she should get married because most women in the Greek culture marry young, so they can breed more babies. Due to the unfortunate cause she started working at her family restaurant housing and dining just like every nice Greek woman who didn’t find a husband. One morning, the handsome Lan Miller walked into her family restaurant and here where the spark of their love began. She almost stumbled when she first saw him and paralyzed in front of his table for a couple of minutes till she realized her situation and immediately she ran away out of shame. Toula aunt hired her at the store after she decided to take some computer classes. Again in another morning, Lan saw a glimpse of a beautiful lady throw the window store. After that, they mutually fall deeply in love of one another. When Toula went to meet Lan's parents she was very …show more content…

With their great stability to maintain their love, they were able to convince her stubborn father to finally get married. They had their wedding ceremony at an Orthodox Church based on her parent's strong religious beliefs, her relatives were spitting on her while she was walking down the aisle to let the evil away which really surprised Land’s western parents. The weddings service in the Greek Orthodox faith is an ancient and beautiful ceremony that is full of symbolism that is highly influenced by the Greek culture, which it’s quite the opposite in westerns weddings where it’s usually less crowded and

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