我盛大的希腊婚礼论文

跨文化交际课程学期论文

Analysis cultural differences of My Big Fat Greek Wedding

学生姓名:岳良燕

学生学号:201207050201422

学生班级:2012-2

学科专业:英语

指导老师:赵燕

学期学年:2015-2016

所在学院:语言文化学院

2015/5/30

摘要

《我盛大的希腊婚礼》是一个典型的跨文化电影,讲述的是希腊裔美国女孩图菈同非希腊裔的美国男友伊恩冲破重重阻碍,最后举行盛大的希腊婚礼的爱情喜剧。影片全方位地再现了希腊裔美国移民的生活,以幽默的手法反映了希腊文化与美国文化的冲突。本文将从民族爱国主义,家庭传统观念,婚礼文化,和接受不同文化的态度四个方面来阐述美国和希腊文化的差异。

关键词：文化差异；民族爱国主义；家庭传统观念；婚礼文化；态度；

abstract

My big fat Greek wedding is a typical cross-cultural film, tells the story of the Greek American girl with non Greek American boyfriend Ian to break through the obstacles, and finally held a big fat Greek wedding romantic comedy. The film is a full range of the life of Greek American immigrants, with a sense of humor reflects the conflicts between Greek culture and American culture. This article will explain the differences between the American and Greek culture from four aspects: the national patriotism, family tradition, wedding customs, and the attitudes of different cultures.

Key words: cultural differences; national patriotism; family tradition; cultural of wedding; attitude;

Analysis cultural differences of My Big Fat Greek Wedding The movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding is a talk about lives of Greek American girl who Tula lives in a large and traditional Greek family, Tula is a thirty years old girl and her family hopes she “marry a Greek boy, make Greek babies, and feed everyone un til the day she dies.” However, to everyone surprise, Tula falls in love with Ian who an American man. they two were from different backgrounds, Tula lived in a big Greek family, they moved to American in the second world war. The family consisted of Tula’s parents, her brother, sister and a great numbers of relatives is big and loud. Ian is from an American family, he is the only child in the family which is in quiet and harmonious atmosphere. Ian in order to be accepted by Tula’s family of deep-rooted the Greek custom, it is no doubt that they has stood a lot of tests. Finally Ian and Tula entered the marriage hall through unremitting efforts, and they held a grand unprecedented "Greek wedding." In fact, The film mainly talks about the huge cultural differences between the United States and Greece, then from the "national plot", "family tradition", “wedding custom”“differences attitude” of the four aspects of the analysis of the cultural differences between Greece and the United States.

First, cultural differences in national plot:

Tula’s father is pride of Greek culture extremely distinct performance in the film. In the first place in the front yard of the house, their house is crammed with Greek statue and large cylindrical, it likes the museum display. Moreover, her family's garage is painted in the Greek flag. In the outside, the father of Tula to language is also emphasized the importance of contribution to human civilization. He often hung on word of mouth is" give me any a word of English, I can give you to find out the Greek root ". In addition, he feels that the Greek food to the Greek culture is also very important. Meat, especially lamb has important significance to the understanding of Greek culture. There is also a requirement for the girl that pride performance of the Greek cultural: " marry a Greek boy, make Greek babies”.

Patriotism is also an important topic in Tula family. Her father always says "you should to be Greeks proud" or "only two kinds of people in the world, the Greeks and wants to be the Greek people". And they will celebrate various Greek festival at home