Greek Festival
Social Event Reflection
30 August 2019, 7pm, Greek Orthodox Cathedral
This event was just a fun time where we were around parts of Greek culture. There was live music, dancing, traditional Greek foods, art, and more. This event showed me how fun Greek culture is, and that many Greek people just like to have fun with their families. I also tried many new foods there such as gyros, baklava, and feta. This just showed me some parts of Greek culture that I have never experienced in my life. This event releases to the topic of International Affairs because it is about the culture of a different group of people. This is something that we learned about recently in our International Affairs seminar. I basically just gained a new perspective of Greek culture because the only “experience” that I have had prior to this event was in movies. As mentioned before, we recently learned about culture in our IA seminar, so it really relates to that topic. After attending this event, I would have asked some of the people there about the origins of their culture. I would also ask if living in the United States impacts how they express themselves. Overall, this experience just gave me the opportunity to experience a little bit of Greek culture without going all the way to Greece. It also showed me that some day I would liked to go to Greece to have cultural experiences that cannot be expressed as well in the United States as they would be in Greece.