To understand the most important characteristics of a society, one must study its major cities.
Although studying the major cities can offer important insights about the characteristics of a society, studying other aspects of the society like arts can bring more thoughtful understandings of a society.
To begin with, big cities is dwelled by people from all around the nation. Because huge cities have more advanced economic performance, and more opportunities than small towns, ambitious people from all the around the country come to the city and try to find jobs. Thus, cities are very demographically diversified, and studying cities is very convenient for researchers who do not need to travel to a lot of places around the whole country. Hong Kong, then, is a good example. Hong Kong is a very cyberpunk city with both skyscrapers and slums, with luxurious restaurants and street stalls. People who go to Hong Kong to try to establish a business also bring their own traditions and food. It is common that a Michelin star French restaurant is near a traditional Cantonese restaurant. Inclusion, thus, is the most important characteristic of Hong Kong.
However, big cities are very similar to each other because of increasingly modernization and integration. As Marshall McLuhan first said in the 1980s, we live in a global village, and we communicate with the world more conveniently and quickly. A new fashion began from Paris can spread to Vietnam several days later. This is to say, different cultures become more and more assimilated and lose their own unique, and huge cities are on the front line of this integration and assimilation. Those metropolis including the New York City, Tokyo, London and Shanghai, are very similar to each other, with a landmark which is the highest building in the city, and city museums as well as a park in the centre of the city. Therefore, learning huge cities may be simply a waste of time and can figure out nothing specific characteristics of the city.
In addition, arts can represent the most important characteristics of a society because art itself is from the real life and artists tend to use arts to express their attitude and observation of a society. Take movies directed by Jia Zhang-ke as an example. The well-known film directer captured a lot of representative pictures in Chinese society. In the movie The World, he filmed a lot migrant workers who left their hometown and hoped to make a career in Beijing, but actually they are still marginalized groups being exploited and alienated. And that is exactly what is happening in China. In 2017, Beijing banished millions of migrant workers living in Beijing, and although they contributed a lot to the huge city, they are still the “strangers” who are dismissed by the mainstream city dwellers.
In a nutshell, digging into the arts created by masters living in the society is a better way to study the unique vibe of a society compared to studying its major cities.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 490, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'this metropolis' or 'Those metropolises'?
Suggestion: This metropolis; Those metropolises
...e of this integration and assimilation. Those metropolis including the New York City, Tokyo, Lon...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, however, if, may, so, still, then, therefore, thus, well, in addition, as well as, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 19.5258426966 113% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.4196629213 56% => OK
Conjunction : 23.0 14.8657303371 155% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 11.3162921348 62% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 18.0 33.0505617978 54% => OK
Preposition: 68.0 58.6224719101 116% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 12.9106741573 54% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2423.0 2235.4752809 108% => OK
No of words: 484.0 442.535393258 109% => OK
Chars per words: 5.00619834711 5.05705443957 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.69041575982 4.55969084622 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.92758825665 2.79657885939 105% => OK
Unique words: 254.0 215.323595506 118% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.52479338843 0.4932671777 106% => OK
syllable_count: 751.5 704.065955056 107% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 6.24550561798 96% => OK
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 8.0 1.77640449438 450% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 7.0 4.38483146067 160% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.2370786517 109% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 23.0359550562 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 59.555394729 60.3974514979 99% => OK
Chars per sentence: 110.136363636 118.986275619 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.0 23.4991977007 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.63636363636 5.21951772744 108% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 10.2758426966 88% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.83258426966 207% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.249420862906 0.243740707755 102% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.061676156433 0.0831039109588 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.083840147132 0.0758088955206 111% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.162625791522 0.150359130593 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0918069573143 0.0667264976115 138% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.2 14.1392134831 93% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 48.8420337079 101% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.1743820225 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.78 12.1639044944 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.68 8.38706741573 103% => OK
difficult_words: 121.0 100.480337079 120% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 11.8971910112 118% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.2143820225 96% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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