It is primarily in cities that a nation's cultural traditions are generated and preserved.
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.
In my view, there is some truth in the statement that a nation’s culture is preserved in the cities. But I would prefer to qualify the statement by contending that much of a nation’s culture is generated in the small villages and towns in different parts of the country. So, I would maintain that small villages and towns are the primary source of a nation’s culture.
Firstly, let’s examine the merit in the given statement. People from all parts of the country travel to major cities in search of better livelihood and settle there. These people also bring their culture along with them to the cities. So one could say that major cities give us a glimpse of many neighbouring regions. An example of such a city is Delhi. People from almost all states of India are settled in Delhi, especially from the neighbouring states like Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana.
Thus we see a rich Punjabi influence in the cuisines in Delhi. In old Delhi area, influence of the Mughal rule can be observed in the food and the buildings. Also, throughout Delhi we can find a Haryanvi dialect. This makes Delhi a salient example of a culturally rich city.
But while discussing culture in the cities, we have overlooked the fact that villages and small towns also have an equally rich culture, although they usually don’t have a mix and match of cultures. The bucolic life of the countryside is a rich culture in itself and is somewhat different from the cities. So, it would be wrong to say that cities are the “primary source” of a nation’s culture. Infact, much of the city culture that the writer of the statement talks about, is actually “generated” in the villages and small towns in neighbouring regions. Another important point to consider is that it is usually the major cosmopolitian cities that are heavily influenced by global culture (western culture in case of Delhi). So they are at a greater risk of diluting the nation’s own culture. Whereas villages and small towns are somewhat resilient to outside influence and they preserve the nation’s culture better.
In essence, it is correct that cities offer a glimpse into the various cultures of a nation. But these cultures usually have rustic origins and are better preserved in an undiluted form in the countryside.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, firstly, if, look, so, thus, whereas, while, in my view
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.5258426966 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 12.4196629213 48% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 14.8657303371 94% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.3162921348 88% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 33.0505617978 88% => OK
Preposition: 57.0 58.6224719101 97% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 12.9106741573 62% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1946.0 2235.4752809 87% => OK
No of words: 389.0 442.535393258 88% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.00257069409 5.05705443957 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.44106776838 4.55969084622 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.90388316802 2.79657885939 104% => OK
Unique words: 179.0 215.323595506 83% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.460154241645 0.4932671777 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 616.5 704.065955056 88% => 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: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.2370786517 109% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 23.0359550562 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 42.9296945911 60.3974514979 71% => OK
Chars per sentence: 88.4545454545 118.986275619 74% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.6818181818 23.4991977007 75% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.77272727273 5.21951772744 72% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.2758426966 117% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 5.13820224719 19% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.104981868446 0.243740707755 43% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0380761565489 0.0831039109588 46% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0280120487653 0.0758088955206 37% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.064376848071 0.150359130593 43% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0294802924833 0.0667264976115 44% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.0 14.1392134831 78% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 48.8420337079 111% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 12.1743820225 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.42 12.1639044944 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.17 8.38706741573 97% => OK
difficult_words: 91.0 100.480337079 91% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 11.8971910112 67% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 11.2143820225 78% => 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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