Studying foodways-what foods people eat and how they produce, acquire, prepare, and consume them-isthe best way to gain deep understanding of a culture.

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Studying foodways-what foods people eat and how they produce, acquire, prepare, and consume them-is
the best way to gain deep understanding of a culture.

Food defines one of the core extensions to a community’s culture – being as diverse and disparate in composition – yet it has the ability to establish quite a naïve understanding of one’s heritage. However, to say that food extends a deep understanding of a community’s culture could have multiple connotations to it; firstly and foremost, how do we actually define culture? Do we confine it for intrinsic judgement depending upon the innate food history of a place or do we expand it to continuum of topography, history, saturnine, literature and folklore? From the point of view of an avid observer, food do play a rudimentary but pivotal role in defining a country’s cultural heritage.
Extending to the established stance, if we take into account the example of Malaysia which constitutes of three local majorities – Chinese, Malays, South Indians – it would be an arduous task to compare and contrast between the food habits given that Chinese go with mostly seafood which blend of brim and pepper while South Indians love the richness that comes with cumin, coriander and turmeric powder. While there do exist the cross cultural food eating habits in Malaysia, all three majorities have diverse cultural habits starting from national holiday – Chinese New Year for Chinese and Diwali for South Indians to Eid for Malays – to the attire. To be dependent upon food – lets say Malay food would be very hard to establish a deep understanding of the Malaysian culture as whole.
Climate plays an important factor in influencing the culture – which includes food as well. For examples, within the United States of America, different cultures resides at different locations starting from people’s eating habits, their means of acquiring food, means of earning to spending the rest of the day. New Orleans, for example is more about tropical weather and salsa and Cajun fish while New York is more about hipsters, New York Pizza and winters. The cultures in both of the regions are drastically different so it would be very hard to judge the culture of whole of the America by just depending upon their eating habits.
Contrary to the point established in the preceding paragraph, There are many places where the food is same all over however the rest of the culture is different e.g. India and Pakistan. The culture of any community in India is mostly depends upon the religion or the caste or the location that particular community belong to. The South Indian and North Indian food is more or less the same, perhaps a difference which could as well be negligible, however from language to clothes, from music to literature everything drastically stretches and do not halt at a common point. Similarly, in Pakistan where everyone is fond of hot spices with curry and chicken (just like India), the cultural heritage differs from province to province – where Punjab culture is well aquainted with Punjab from India (they share the same border) the culture of Balochistn is greatly influenced by Afghan heritage.
In conclusion, though food does perform a great deal of job in defining a culture of a particular community, it cannot be extended to a nation or a city as whole. There are numerous dynamic factors involved in perpetuating the deep understanding of the culture as whole. Moreover, none of the factors mentioned above – history, topography or literature – can function individually to provide a deep understanding of a community’s culture unless and until they are studied unanimously that they would be able to coin the deeper understanding of a culture.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Discourse Markers used:
['actually', 'but', 'e.g.', 'first', 'firstly', 'however', 'if', 'moreover', 'similarly', 'so', 'well', 'while', 'for example', 'in conclusion', 'more or less']

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.29446935725 0.240241500013 123% => OK
Verbs: 0.133034379671 0.157235817809 85% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0837070254111 0.0880659088768 95% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0493273542601 0.0497285424764 99% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0239162929746 0.0444667217837 54% => OK
Prepositions: 0.13153961136 0.12292977631 107% => OK
Participles: 0.034379671151 0.0406280797675 85% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.87354690969 2.79330140395 103% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0313901345291 0.030933414821 101% => OK
Particles: 0.00149476831091 0.0016655270985 90% => OK
Determiners: 0.0926756352765 0.0997080785238 93% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0119581464873 0.0249443105267 48% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0134529147982 0.0148568991511 91% => OK

Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 3622.0 2732.02544248 133% => OK
No of words: 597.0 452.878318584 132% => OK
Chars per words: 6.06700167504 6.0361032391 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.94303383012 4.58838876751 108% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.373534338358 0.366273622748 102% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.306532663317 0.280924506359 109% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.206030150754 0.200843997647 103% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.134003350084 0.132149295362 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.87354690969 2.79330140395 103% => OK
Unique words: 288.0 219.290929204 131% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.482412060302 0.48968727796 99% => OK
Word variations: 59.1865035025 55.4138127331 107% => OK
How many sentences: 19.0 20.6194690265 92% => OK
Sentence length: 31.4210526316 23.380412469 134% => OK
Sentence length SD: 86.1649837935 59.4972553346 145% => OK
Chars per sentence: 190.631578947 141.124799967 135% => OK
Words per sentence: 31.4210526316 23.380412469 134% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.789473684211 0.674092028746 117% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.94800884956 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.21349557522 38% => OK
Readability: 62.0743189632 51.4728631049 121% => OK
Elegance: 2.23188405797 1.64882698954 135% => OK

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.201123876811 0.391690518653 51% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.122610168387 0.123202303941 100% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0881556459412 0.077325440228 114% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.585569743949 0.547984918172 107% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.157525805666 0.149214159877 106% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.100986971535 0.161403998019 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0533838429065 0.0892212321368 60% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.414608928167 0.385218514788 108% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0363047771296 0.0692045440612 52% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.156233292149 0.275328986314 57% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0369929243177 0.0653680567796 57% => The ideas may be duplicated in paragraphs.

Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.4325221239 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.30420353982 38% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.88274336283 102% => OK
Positive topic words: 11.0 7.22455752212 152% => OK
Negative topic words: 2.0 3.66592920354 55% => OK
Neutral topic words: 3.0 2.70907079646 111% => OK
Total topic words: 16.0 13.5995575221 118% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

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Scores by essay e-grader: 3.25 Out of 6
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