Now please don't get me wrong! I love the Greek culture as much as I love the Ukrainian culture - having first hand experience of both. My Big Fat Greek Wedding is a nicely thought out simple story of a woman named Toula born and raised in America trying to 'fit in' with America's diverse selection of cultures, whilst also clinging to her Greek heritage.

Toula is a single thirty year old Greek woman working in the family business, a restaurant. Her older sister is married and is doing/and has done all the right things - she has married a Greek man, produced lots of Greek babies and feeds anyone or anything that gets within eating distance of her house! Of course this makes Toula's immensely proud Greek father very happy!

So here we have Toula who feels caught between the family traditions, who wants to escape working in the family restaurant and embrace a bit more of life and what it has to offer. She finally breaks free by enrolling at th

'The man is the head but the woman is the neck and she can turn the head any way she wants.'

Miller (Ian's last name) is from the Greek root for 'apple'. Our name means orange. That mean tonight we have an apple and orange. We're all different. But in the end we all fruit.'

and completes the statement by an over-the-top clasping and pinching of his face with her well jewelled hands. Within this flurry of dramatics the festivities get back on track.

Every individual is a bearer of a certain culture that carries with it their own values and their own ideas of how the world should be. It is unfortunate that ignorance and disrespect for each other's culture brings people into any number of present day conflicts.

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