Thank you for you sweet words.:sunny:
 
Sarah! You are a peach! Thank you so much for telling me how to fix Jonah’s ticker!!!
Well I don’t know where to start with that movie. I felt it was a parody. Here are a couple things off the top of my head and in no particular order.
 
1. Nia was raised in Canada and the Greeks there seem to be much more Greek. My grandparents came from Greece but my parents were born here so that makes me  a second generation America where Nia is a first generation Canadian.
 
2. The adult baptism would not have a women rubbing oil all over a man. The priest would anoint the person being baptized with Holy Oil with a small paint brush, see the photos in my previous post where Alana and Tim are being Christmated. Also while they do do full adult immersion baptisms they would be wearing something not have a bare chest.
 
3. I was never discouraged from going to college. I grew up going in a large Greek Orthodox Church and all my circle of friends and everyone I knew was actually encourage to go to college. Greek Americans are among the highest educated people in America.
 
4. I have never had or have seen a  crazy Yiayia screaming about the Turks.
 
5. I have seen some people encouraged to marry someone that is also Greek but never forced too. I do have friends that married non Greeks. I married a Greek man from Athens, Greece but not because I had to. I just happened to fall in love with someone from Greece. Everyone I know married for love they did not have arranged marriage. But that scene in the movie is one of my favorites and I can imagine it happening to some girls. Poor girls!!:lol:
 
6. I did have friends with plastic on their couches and friends whose dad would make cook a full lamb outside, but it was always in the back yard.:fun:
 
7.  We do have huge readings but most of us have good taste and don’t do all that froufrou, I can see that happening in big cities like Toronto, Chicago and NYC though.
 
8. When her dh in the movie was baptized and Christmated he said “now I am Greek”. That line was in correct actually , being baptized and christmated makes you an Orthodox Christian not Greek.
 
9. I loved the father in that movie and I do the same thing he does , not the Windex, the breaking down of words to find the Greek root.:lol:  It is actually very helpful to and fun. :fun:
 
10. The working in restaurants is very realistic but  those folks I know who own restaurants have children that become doctors and lawyers. The WANT their children to be educated and earning a living as a professional.
 
11. We don’t pass out platters of meat and eat with our hands.
 
12. In general I think that movie exaggerated.
 
13. I don’t know anyone with a Greek flag painted on their garage door, although I did laugh my head off.:spinning:
 
14. I know a few people with replica ancient Greek art statues but the are always in their house not outside.:wink:
 
15. I didn’t like the fact that she sleep with the guy.:(
 
16. The living next door was really cute and I would say that is realistic that Greek parents like to have their dc near them and often help them buy a house. I would love to live next door to my parents , we are about a half hour away and did actually move back from England to be near them.:love:
 
Anything else you want to know?:)