'I was leading a double life as an American at school and a Greek in the evenings and on weekends.'
"I was 3 years old when 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding' came out, so my experience as a Greek American is indelibly tangled with the movie," the author writes.
I think there was a time when I genuinely thought my mom had been the person to originate the saying, “The man is the head , but the woman is the neck. And she can turn the head any way she wants,” because she loved and referenced the sentiment so much. I, like Toula, was a visibly ethnic child in a primarily WASPy neighbourhood in the Midwest who understood on some level that I was different from my school peers. I used to joke that my life as an adolescent mirrored that of Hannah Montana, although instead of switching between celebrity and normal-girl personas, I was leading a double life as an American at school and a Greek in the evenings and on weekends. It’s a disorienting experience.
In the second movie, Ian and Toula’s daughter Paris is deciding between staying in the Midwest for school or going to New York City. In the end, Paris is told by her very traditional, straight-from-Greece grandmother, of all people, that it’s OK to leave.
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