Toula's Culture In The Film, My Big Fat Greek Wedding

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 meets Ian Miller and falls in love. Unfortunately, the only problem with Ian is that he is not Greek and is a vegetarian which is not acceptable for Toula’s Greek family.
Culture gives everyone an identity because of the social groups we live in. We acquire knowledge, beliefs and behaviours all from our ancestors beliefs that have been gathered and altered generation after generation. This movie shows how Toula’s culture creates her identity from her family. For most of the film, you see how Toula’s father has a judgemental attitude towards Ian which comes from his culture's
We as humans are the only living creatures of earth that belong to various cultures. The many cultures that we have today didn’t just pop out of nowhere, slowly over time people separated and created their own way of living. Toula’s overbearing family, live the way they do because they grew up with the knowledge of only marrying Greek men and not someone with a different background. In spite of humans creating their own culture that also gives them the opportunity to alter the way they live as well. This affects Ian and Toula’s relationship in both a positive and negative way for the reason that Toula’s family doesn’t agree with all of Ian’s ways but at the same time eventually relent that their relationship is real and welcome him into the family as if he was one of their own once they get past his