My Greek Fat Wedding: Cultural Differences

Cultural Differences

I fully agree that there are plenty of differences between cultures, and I feel familiar with some situations I identified in the movie, essay, and yes, my own experience. Culture refers to a set of common beliefs, norms and values held by persons of a group. Consequently, there should be differences between people from different parts of the world. I think in this country we can notice those differences more often because The United States has many people from every single country. There are specific approaches that I will discuss in this paper. For example, language, customs and my personal experience. However, each one of them has a different context but I could find a big relationship among them.

First, I found interesting the essay called “Private Language”, I agree with the idea of keeping our native language and learn English because two reasons. First, in order to prosper in s different country, we must learn how to communicate. I will give an example from my own experience.My first days in this country were frustrating because I could talk basic English, but I was not able to communicate my feelings, opinions and ideas. I understood the importance of learning the language of where you are. Second, as immigrants we should keep our own traditions in order to conserve our culture, although I disagree when the woman of

A clear example is during the wedding, they were not ashamed of their way to celebrate it. Even though the husband’s family were north Americans, they were polite and the Greek family had great empathy toward them. Moreover, it is important to emphasize the courage that the husband had to embrace the Greek traditions especially religion. I can only say that love can do everything even when it comes to adapt our lives to another