Some people believe that a person's culture is defined by their country of origin, while others believe that has only a minor influence.
Discuss both these views and give your opinion.
As a culture is formed by the people, language, and society that are specific to the environment, it has a very unique impact on how an individual forms one’s cultural identity and sense of cultural awareness. Some argue that an individual’s cultural identity can be heavily influenced by the culture of the country that one’s born and grew up in. Whereas the others state that an individual's cultural identity is rigid regardless of the surroundings, and people are not prone to assimilate to the culture of the country they grew up in.
The purpose of this essay is to discuss two contradictory views on how a person’s culture is defined by their country of origin, and analyze the validity of those statements.
An individual’s culture can be defined by one’s country of origin, because we are very susceptible to the environment we live in. The Culture one is born and grew up in forms one’s cultural identity. A study shows that once an individual acquires a sense of cultural identity, it becomes a rigid part of their identity, and stays the same throughout their life course. Therefore, it is feasible to believe that an individual’s culture is defined by the country of their origin, as it is an established sense of self in the cultural context they are in.
On the other hand, some argue that the culture from the person’s country of origin plays a trivial role when it comes to forming one's cultural identity. A study shows an interesting idea of what happens when an individual in one cultural context migrates to the other cultural context. When people change their cultural context, they tend to assimilate to the new culture and modify their cultural identity in order to adjust into the new environment. The benefit of cultural modification is that we can minimize the psychological stress we might experience in the new environment due to cultural differences. Therefore, culture of an individual’s origin has a minimum impact on an individual, because acculturation can easily happen when one moves from the original cultural context to the new one, indicating that culture of the origin does not have a significant impact on a person’s cultural identity, and is easily replaceable.
Both views stated above give me an insight on how a culture impacts on an individual’s identity. I personally believe that a person’s culture can be defined by one's country of origin, but is amiable to change when one’s in a different cultural context for a long period of time. As I move around the world, I sense my cultural identity is always updated whenever I experience the new culture.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, if, so, therefore, whereas, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 13.1623246493 144% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 7.85571142285 76% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 10.4138276553 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 7.30460921844 205% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 36.0 24.0651302605 150% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 65.0 41.998997996 155% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.3376753507 96% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2194.0 1615.20841683 136% => OK
No of words: 440.0 315.596192385 139% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.98636363636 5.12529762239 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.57997565096 4.20363070211 109% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.97912849867 2.80592935109 106% => OK
Unique words: 169.0 176.041082164 96% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.384090909091 0.561755894193 68% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 740.7 506.74238477 146% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 6.0 2.52805611222 237% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 6.0 2.10420841683 285% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 6.0 0.809619238477 741% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 1.0 4.76152304609 21% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0721442886 100% => OK
Sentence length: 27.0 20.2975951904 133% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 54.9801100399 49.4020404114 111% => OK
Chars per sentence: 137.125 106.682146367 129% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.5 20.7667163134 132% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.125 7.06120827912 44% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.01903807615 80% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.67935871743 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 3.4128256513 234% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.269802875882 0.244688304435 110% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.122874163153 0.084324248473 146% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0644667504899 0.0667982634062 97% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.196129922783 0.151304729494 130% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0354167356408 0.056905535591 62% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.8 13.0946893788 121% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 35.61 50.2224549098 71% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.0 11.3001002004 133% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.96 12.4159519038 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.92 8.58950901804 92% => OK
difficult_words: 82.0 78.4519038076 105% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.0 9.78957915832 153% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 10.1190380762 126% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 10.7795591182 139% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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