38. It is primarily through our identification with social groups that we define ourselves.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.
The speaker asserts that we define ourselves by our identification with social groups. Admittedly, we find our identity by our social roles, yet we also define ourselves by our interests and our view of the world.
Social role is very important for defining ourselves from which we know the certain group we belong to. Living meaninglessly, we may easily fall into nihilism and wonder why we still manage to live. However, when we find a group in which there are similar people around us, we feel the sense of belonging and regain the passion of living. For example, Chinese define themselves by descendants of dragon, and fight together against other peoples who try to invade their territory or humiliate their tradition or culture. Through fighting with other people, we become zealous and passionate which can overcome the loneliness buried in our hearts.
In addition, we also define ourselves by our hobbies. For instance, people who like watching art films define themselves as cinephiles; people who are fanatic about literature define themselves as literature lovers. For instance, cinephiles feel the sense of belonging after watching a brilliant movie and talking about the brilliance with other cinephiles.
Moreover, our view of the world and way of thinking are also crucial to find our identity. We all have different view toward the world. Some of us are feminist, while others are incels who are like misogynists denying value of women; some of us are supporters of globalization, while others are populists who despising other nations. Take the pro-democracy protest happened in Hong Kong as an example. Most residents of mainland China support Hong Kong police as well as the central government and tweets like “Shame On Hong Kong” were reposted millions of times. On the contrast, foreign top tier news agents like the Guardian and the New York Times criticized those violent behavior made by Hong Kong policemen and backed protesters to pursue freedom and democracy. For Chinese mainlanders, maintaining social stability is more important than guaranteeing individual rights, while for Hong Kongers as well as western citizens, government is established to ensure individual rights like freedom of speech. Therefore, the reason why Hong Kongers define themselves as Hong Kongers rather than Chinese is the different view of the government.
In a nutshell, we define ourselves not only by our social groups we belong to, but also by our own hobbies and our view of the world.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...re feminist, while others are incels who are like misogynists denying value of wo...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, may, moreover, so, still, therefore, well, while, for example, for instance, in addition, talking about, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 19.5258426966 67% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 12.4196629213 16% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 14.8657303371 108% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.3162921348 88% => OK
Pronoun: 42.0 33.0505617978 127% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 56.0 58.6224719101 96% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 12.9106741573 77% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2122.0 2235.4752809 95% => OK
No of words: 404.0 442.535393258 91% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.25247524752 5.05705443957 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.48327461151 4.55969084622 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.76869906992 2.79657885939 99% => OK
Unique words: 214.0 215.323595506 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.529702970297 0.4932671777 107% => OK
syllable_count: 661.5 704.065955056 94% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 6.24550561798 128% => OK
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.2370786517 94% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 23.0359550562 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 51.2351052608 60.3974514979 85% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.684210526 118.986275619 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.2631578947 23.4991977007 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.31578947368 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 : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => 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: 0.2033156568 0.243740707755 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0755727273722 0.0831039109588 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.064990147028 0.0758088955206 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.13910281226 0.150359130593 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0595013063699 0.0667264976115 89% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.9 14.1392134831 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 48.8420337079 103% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.1743820225 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.17 12.1639044944 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.86 8.38706741573 106% => OK
difficult_words: 107.0 100.480337079 106% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 11.8971910112 67% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.2143820225 93% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => 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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