Tradition vs modernisation
In the tussle between tradition and modernization, I choose pragmatism and logic. Before going further, I assume that tradition in the statement refers to the practice adopted in the society for several generations and modernization to be the paradigm that has sprouted in the past few years. Many modern practices and paradigms tend to be liberal and open in nature, freeing people out of the golden cage of tradition. At the same time, traditions have evolved over hundreds of years and fine-tuned to the local dynamics. Hence, we need to choose our approach in accordance to the situation at hand.
Modernisation in the fields of polity, transport, science and technology have largely advanced humans to a comfortable and equitable life. We take equality and fundamental rights for granted. Travel of thousands of miles can be covered in a few hours. It takes a few seconds to reach out to someone who stays diametrically opposite to us on the globe. Throughout our day, we come across gadgets, modern institutions, transport facilities that easen our lives. Hence, modernization can be seen as evolution of systems to suit the present global scenario. But, that may not be completely true.
Modernisation has failed to recognize the local necessities and fragility. For example, the crops that grow in the American tropical forests are different from the one that grow in the equatorial Indian plains. Consequentially, the food practices of both regions have been traditionally very different. Similar argument applies to clothing and many other day to dayactivities. Increasing inclination towards popular culture is slowly ruining the local environment.
On the contrary, many traditions practices are in sync with the local environment and perspectives. Traditional clothing and food habits optimally exploit the local environment, since the conditions are conducive for the growth such crops. Also, traditions offer us a way of looking at our own past and contemplate society’s journey and evolution over time. Hence, it is important to preserve traditional practices that have sound logical backing.
To conclude, though I agree that modernization has revolutionized the way we do things, blindly following what is famous and global has been causing unprecedented damage to our environment. At the same time, though certain traditional practices have been oppressive in nature, they suit the local environment. Hence, we must adopt “think globally, act locally” moto to consider each scenario, weigh what is practical and take a well deliberated situation.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, hence, if, look, may, second, so, well, for example, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 19.5258426966 77% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 12.4196629213 40% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 14.8657303371 114% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.3162921348 80% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 26.0 33.0505617978 79% => OK
Preposition: 58.0 58.6224719101 99% => OK
Nominalization: 23.0 12.9106741573 178% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2192.0 2235.4752809 98% => OK
No of words: 401.0 442.535393258 91% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.46633416459 5.05705443957 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.47492842339 4.55969084622 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.17961077642 2.79657885939 114% => OK
Unique words: 229.0 215.323595506 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.571072319202 0.4932671777 116% => OK
syllable_count: 689.4 704.065955056 98% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 6.24550561798 160% => OK
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.38483146067 182% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 20.2370786517 119% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 23.0359550562 69% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 40.0549752424 60.3974514979 66% => OK
Chars per sentence: 91.3333333333 118.986275619 77% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.7083333333 23.4991977007 71% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.29166666667 5.21951772744 63% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 10.2758426966 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.83258426966 186% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.155649185739 0.243740707755 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0451885193637 0.0831039109588 54% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0508137498209 0.0758088955206 67% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0897173765681 0.150359130593 60% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.049774728245 0.0667264976115 75% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.7 14.1392134831 90% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 46.78 48.8420337079 96% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.1743820225 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.15 12.1639044944 116% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.23 8.38706741573 110% => OK
difficult_words: 122.0 100.480337079 121% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 11.2143820225 75% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 62.5 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.75 Out of 6
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