Modern cultures around the world have become similar when compared to the past. What are the reasons? Is it a positive or negative development?
When travelling on holidays, it can be often comforting to find the same amenities abroad that are also at home. No matter how far you travel and exotic the culture, it is nearly assured you will find your favourite fast food joint to enjoy your happy meal. Afterwards, in the local pub, you can most assuredly continue to drink your familiar beer, and in the evening you can catch the latest episode of your favourite tv show in your hotel room.
It looks like wherever one goes nowadays, the differences in cultures are becoming increasingly smaller and there seems to be a world wide convergence in various aspects of our lives that we all share. Certainly, the idea of fast food would have been vastly different in Asia in the 1950’s than it would have been in Germany or the United States. And this does not only pertain to foodstuffs, but one could insert any number of cultural aspects, such as architecture or music.
Especially, however, modern aspects of pop culture, in which I include the fast food phenomena, has conquered the world in an unprecedented fashion. It all started to a lesser extent with the advancement of mass transportation by air, affordable by a large number of people from rich economies. Hence, I surmise, the dominance of predominantly American movies and also music world wide that started sometime in the 1970’s, coinciding with the affordability of airplane travel. With the internet and social media the world has even become a smaller place. We can walk through the streets of Delhi instantly using Google Streetview, or we can chat with a stranger on a different continent, who likely learned English as a second language.
Technological inventions have always sparked societal changes and technology is the reason why societies and cultures are becoming more congruent. Even though there are these assimilating forces at work , overall, I believe that we have the opportunity for a deeper understanding and appreciation of the various idiosyncrasies that different cultures offer.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, hence, however, if, look, second, so, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 13.1623246493 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 7.85571142285 115% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 10.4138276553 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 7.30460921844 110% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 24.0651302605 121% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 41.0 41.998997996 98% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 8.3376753507 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1714.0 1615.20841683 106% => OK
No of words: 335.0 315.596192385 106% => OK
Chars per words: 5.11641791045 5.12529762239 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.27820116611 4.20363070211 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.91266580552 2.80592935109 104% => OK
Unique words: 206.0 176.041082164 117% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.614925373134 0.561755894193 109% => OK
syllable_count: 538.2 506.74238477 106% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 5.43587174349 147% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 0.809619238477 494% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 16.0721442886 81% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 25.0 20.2975951904 123% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 36.0159399293 49.4020404114 73% => OK
Chars per sentence: 131.846153846 106.682146367 124% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.7692307692 20.7667163134 124% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.30769230769 7.06120827912 61% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 5.01903807615 139% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.67935871743 104% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 3.9879759519 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 3.4128256513 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.133208340827 0.244688304435 54% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0474602593988 0.084324248473 56% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0427955494793 0.0667982634062 64% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0809815087809 0.151304729494 54% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.046581378671 0.056905535591 82% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.6 13.0946893788 119% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.1 50.2224549098 92% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 11.3001002004 115% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.71 12.4159519038 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.07 8.58950901804 106% => OK
difficult_words: 89.0 78.4519038076 113% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 9.78957915832 138% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.1190380762 119% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 10.7795591182 121% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 89.8876404494 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 8.0 Out of 9
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