My Big Fat Greek Wedding Essay

After watching clips on the three movies assigned, they all correspond with each other in terms of cross- cultural misunderstanding. In the movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding it is a romantic comedy idealistic romance comedy where a very traditional family raised the main character. Whereas in the movie Mr. Baseball the main charter is assigned to a new team outside of the country triggering great barriers. And in the movie the Joy luck club it demonstrates difficulties the relatives deal with as immigrants and the struggles the mothers' faces with their daughters when they have to familiarize themselves to American culture causing them to have lost their Chinese values.

As we are aware every culture is very different, and has a different style

In the end it teaches you that “Everyone has differences but in the end we are all fruit.” Meaning that we are educated that no matter our difference we are all fruits in the end! This was stated when Mr. Portokalos gave the speech at the wedding, after doing some background investigating on Ian’s last name, it is the meaning of apple and and Portokalos is the meaning of orange.

In the movie Mr. Baseball the main character is having a hard time adjusting to his new environment. There are issues with the Japanese culture and the team management. He displays poor etiquette.towards the Japanese culture and is assigned a translator. The culture in Japan is very distinctive, than in the United States. What may be an offensive gesture to in Japan would not be offensive in America. For example when jack first goes to the locker room he has his shoes on, he was not aware of their cultural expectation. This was very disrespectful to the team’s beliefs and tradition and he had to take his shoes off. Also spitting tobacco on the baseball field in America is a norm for baseball players, but in Japan it is said to be