Some people think that cultural traditions may be destroyed when they are used as money-making traditions aimed at tourists. Others, however, believe that it is the only way to save these traditions.
Discuss both views and give your opinion.
Taking advantage of cultural traditions to exploit money from tourists has been increasing in many places. While some regard this as a countereffect, some consider this as an opportunity to retrieve those traditions. This controversial issue has pros and cons, which should be discussed thoroughly.
On the one hand, traditional values have been used as a tool to gain profits. Some locals astutely charge additional fees or higher amounts than the accepted rate that is allowed by the government when they see tourists. For example, in some famous attractions in Vietnam, such as Da Nang or Nha Trang, the government has discovered that there were many situations in which local people charged unreasonable prices for the local cuisine and specialities. Even though these cases were quickly penalized and handled, the customers’ experiences, the images of the country as well as the tourism sector have been affected deeply. Consequently, travellers may not come back to that place of interest in the future, and rumours about that experience can go on, which later may damage the economic sectors comprised of tourism and transportation.
On the other hand, some cultural traditions are on the edge of being endangered, as there are only a few people left who can actually know about it. Some traditions were death as a result of the rise of the economy and technology, people neglected some cultural aspects as those did not bring them money to earn a living. However, those can be saved with tourism. For example, there are many tours in the South, and the North of Vietnam hosted at the traditional handicraft village, where tourists can see or have hands-on experience in doing some craft bags made from banana or coconut leaves. By virtue of such, locals have money, either from the tour or by selling genuine handmade products to travellers, to maintain their craft business and keep the traditions of the country.
Keeping traditions in the dynamic and non-stop evolving world is not an easy job. If things are regarded as two sides of the problem, it is understandable that earning money from tours comprised of cultural traditions may not be entirely negative. Therefore, I deem that it is reasonable to use certain traditions as a money-making tool to target tourists.
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 4, column 260, Rule ID: EN_GB_SIMPLE_REPLACE
Message: I is a common American expression, in British English it is more common to use: I
Suggestion: I
...ay not be entirely negative. Therefore, I deem that it is reasonable to use certa...
^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, consequently, however, if, may, so, therefore, well, while, for example, such as, as a result, as well as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 13.1623246493 137% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 7.85571142285 102% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 10.4138276553 134% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 7.30460921844 164% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 24.0651302605 83% => OK
Preposition: 45.0 41.998997996 107% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 8.3376753507 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1912.0 1615.20841683 118% => OK
No of words: 376.0 315.596192385 119% => OK
Chars per words: 5.08510638298 5.12529762239 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.40348946061 4.20363070211 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.846455469 2.80592935109 101% => OK
Unique words: 214.0 176.041082164 122% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.56914893617 0.561755894193 101% => OK
syllable_count: 599.4 506.74238477 118% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 5.43587174349 74% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0721442886 100% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 20.2975951904 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 56.3316074686 49.4020404114 114% => OK
Chars per sentence: 119.5 106.682146367 112% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.5 20.7667163134 113% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.375 7.06120827912 119% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 8.67935871743 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 3.4128256513 29% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.316945956249 0.244688304435 130% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.101656374932 0.084324248473 121% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0610736500994 0.0667982634062 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.189555312365 0.151304729494 125% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0641981442285 0.056905535591 113% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.3 13.0946893788 109% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 50.2224549098 96% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.3001002004 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.54 12.4159519038 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.1 8.58950901804 106% => OK
difficult_words: 103.0 78.4519038076 131% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 9.78957915832 87% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.1190380762 111% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 Out of 9
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 4, column 260, Rule ID: EN_GB_SIMPLE_REPLACE
Message: I is a common American expression, in British English it is more common to use: I
Suggestion: I
...ay not be entirely negative. Therefore, I deem that it is reasonable to use certa...
^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, consequently, however, if, may, so, therefore, well, while, for example, such as, as a result, as well as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 13.1623246493 137% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 7.85571142285 102% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 10.4138276553 134% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 7.30460921844 164% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 24.0651302605 83% => OK
Preposition: 45.0 41.998997996 107% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 8.3376753507 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1912.0 1615.20841683 118% => OK
No of words: 376.0 315.596192385 119% => OK
Chars per words: 5.08510638298 5.12529762239 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.40348946061 4.20363070211 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.846455469 2.80592935109 101% => OK
Unique words: 214.0 176.041082164 122% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.56914893617 0.561755894193 101% => OK
syllable_count: 599.4 506.74238477 118% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 5.43587174349 74% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0721442886 100% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 20.2975951904 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 56.3316074686 49.4020404114 114% => OK
Chars per sentence: 119.5 106.682146367 112% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.5 20.7667163134 113% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.375 7.06120827912 119% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 8.67935871743 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 3.4128256513 29% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.316945956249 0.244688304435 130% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.101656374932 0.084324248473 121% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0610736500994 0.0667982634062 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.189555312365 0.151304729494 125% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0641981442285 0.056905535591 113% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.3 13.0946893788 109% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 50.2224549098 96% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.3001002004 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.54 12.4159519038 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.1 8.58950901804 106% => OK
difficult_words: 103.0 78.4519038076 131% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 9.78957915832 87% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.1190380762 111% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 Out of 9
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.