In the past, people used to travel abroad to see many differences from their home country. Nowadays, cities throughout the world are becoming more and more similar. Is this a positive or negative development?
Nowadays, architectures in cities often imitate the style of those from other countries, making the appearance difference between cities globally being smaller. I personally think the advantages of this trend outweigh its disadvantages.
For one thing, living in a city that absorbs various traits from foreign cultures can greatly benefit local residents. Through appreciating foreign architectures or artworks in public areas, local people can get an in-depth understanding of the culture of that country, which can broaden their horizon. For example, it is the Russian style buildings in China that have provided Chinese people with opportunities to get exposed to Russian culture. This also eliminates the costs relating to travelling abroad including transport and accommodation fees. For another, people who come from that country but live currently in this city would feel accepted, included and belonged when they can touch their own culture in this city, making it easier for them to adapt to life. If foreign people can get such a sense of belonging and acceptance, there would be more harmonious relationships in one city between people with different culture background.
However, there are some risks of making cities increasingly similar. Firstly, getting exposed to too much foreign culture might threaten local people’s cultural identity. This is a particular risk for children because it is too young for them to distinguish national culture from foreign culture, making them lose culture identity. Besides, compared to a traditional city that has unique architectural style for its own, a city without such unique attributes would lose attraction of foreign visitors, as they could choose to travel somewhere else and see similar views. However, this is unlikely to happen, as the appearance of buildings is not the only way to present culture identity. It also could be presented in traditional festival celebrations, carnivals and traditional food.
The above analysis suggests that although there are some risks related to making cities similar, people living in the city can get greater benefits from this trend.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, but, first, firstly, however, if, so, for example, for one thing
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 13.1623246493 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 7.85571142285 153% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 10.4138276553 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 7.30460921844 123% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 24.0651302605 116% => OK
Preposition: 42.0 41.998997996 100% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.3376753507 72% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1821.0 1615.20841683 113% => OK
No of words: 330.0 315.596192385 105% => OK
Chars per words: 5.51818181818 5.12529762239 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.26214759535 4.20363070211 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.85312484756 2.80592935109 102% => OK
Unique words: 185.0 176.041082164 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.560606060606 0.561755894193 100% => OK
syllable_count: 567.0 506.74238477 112% => 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
Interrogative: 0.0 0.384769539078 0% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.76152304609 21% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 20.2975951904 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.1301938034 49.4020404114 97% => OK
Chars per sentence: 121.4 106.682146367 114% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.0 20.7667163134 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.26666666667 7.06120827912 75% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.67935871743 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 3.4128256513 88% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.203636533396 0.244688304435 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0722267697074 0.084324248473 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0455192900803 0.0667982634062 68% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.135285859884 0.151304729494 89% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0281319917385 0.056905535591 49% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.6 13.0946893788 119% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 40.69 50.2224549098 81% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.1 11.3001002004 116% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.74 12.4159519038 119% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.23 8.58950901804 107% => OK
difficult_words: 94.0 78.4519038076 120% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 9.78957915832 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.1190380762 107% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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