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.
The issue raised here asks reader to take stand on whether studying foodways of people is the best way to gain a deep understanding of a certain culture. Culture consists a lot of things, it includes the dressing style, the kind of things people celebrate, religion, beliefs and many more things. Food habits plays a portion of culture and not really a major factor in determing any kind of culture. Let’s look at a few examples to understand this.
Firstly, with the advent of progress in transportation services, we are able to consume a number of cuisines from across the world. Not only just consume we have learnt the authentic way of preparing it and enjoying it. Say for example, people from across the world enjoy Chinese noodles so this doesn’t really mean we are following Chinese culture nor we can talk the language. In such cases, based on the food ways if we try to understand the culture, it would be discrepant.
Secondly, In parts of India, we can find both vegetarians and no vegetarians, though they follow the same culture. It all comes down to a simple logic of what edible food is abundantly and easily available in that part of region. The costal regions might see more population of people consuming fish, while the some part where there is good agriculture land in accordance with a good climate, then people are bound to vegetarians. Hence, with the same religion and traditions food habits can still differ.
Thirdly, in countries like Saudi Arabia, where women wear a scarf over their head, which is a part of the religion and their belief system. Now how would we correlate that to the food they commonly consume like hummus and shawarma. With just the knowledge about food, it becomes very difficult to conclude why people follow certain beliefs.
Lastly, culture is a wider aspect and goes beyond the foodways. Food is just one of the factor that may or may not have influenced the culture. Hence, it would be unreasonable to conclude an understanding of the culture based on the foldaways.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Did you mean 'same'?
Suggestion: same
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, firstly, hence, if, lastly, look, may, really, second, secondly, so, still, then, third, thirdly, while, for example, kind of
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 19.5258426966 56% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.4196629213 72% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 14.8657303371 74% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 11.3162921348 53% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 23.0 33.0505617978 70% => OK
Preposition: 51.0 58.6224719101 87% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 12.9106741573 31% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1688.0 2235.4752809 76% => OK
No of words: 350.0 442.535393258 79% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.82285714286 5.05705443957 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.32530772707 4.55969084622 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.59483946261 2.79657885939 93% => OK
Unique words: 199.0 215.323595506 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.568571428571 0.4932671777 115% => OK
syllable_count: 518.4 704.065955056 74% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 20.2370786517 89% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 23.0359550562 82% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 36.5482937738 60.3974514979 61% => OK
Chars per sentence: 93.7777777778 118.986275619 79% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.4444444444 23.4991977007 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.33333333333 5.21951772744 140% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 10.2758426966 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.13820224719 39% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.83258426966 124% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.270497368715 0.243740707755 111% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0751969037421 0.0831039109588 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0606606547135 0.0758088955206 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.131914176001 0.150359130593 88% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0527100484835 0.0667264976115 79% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.0 14.1392134831 78% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 48.8420337079 124% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 12.1743820225 78% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.68 12.1639044944 88% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.28 8.38706741573 99% => OK
difficult_words: 82.0 100.480337079 82% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 11.8971910112 88% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.2143820225 86% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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