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.

When a travel enthusiastic comes to a new country with the purpose that discovers a new culture. Some people have asserted that studying foodways following from the way of acquirement the food to the way of consuming them, which is the best way to gain a deep understanding of a culture. Although it is unquestioned that cuisine is one of the most factors as a representer of national culture, I believe that there are still many aspects we could learn or observe to know more about a culture.
On the one hand, culture takes into account the general thought process of people, the kind of lifestyle that they follow on a day to day basis. Some countries might have stronger religious influences than the other one or those who don't follow any religion. For instance, in Asia, my country, Vietnam, even my country have been opening the gate to globalize which leads influx many religious from the other country, however, our main religion is Buddism which nearly 90% population follow. Thus when the foreigner come to visit my country, they would be impressed by our habit which we usually going to the pagoda to praise for many things from the health to economic and we praise our ancestor to have good fortunes.
In additions, people could find out the culture of a nation from their architecture. One of the most explicit example to prove this factor that The Notre Dame Church which we could not ignore one of the most iconic symbols of Paris or France is over 200 years old. For this moment, there are still many pictures on the roof of the church many scientists still have questions where they came from.
On the other hand, food is an essential component of life so food is likely to hold the underlying truths about the kind of lifestyle that the general population follows. For instance, in Vietnam, our main restaurants which people usually come are street vendors which is really popular in my country because it is convenient, delicious and cheap for almost citizen that is why although much fast food chains like Mc Donnals or KFC invested so much money to penetrate the local market, finally it results in that these companies have to leave. And on the reason is they haven't studied the habit of eating in Vietnam so they fail to meet the demand of Vietnamese. However, studying the foodways just gain essentially understanding of the cultures of the states, If people want to know deeply about that culture, they need to combine many factors from everything around from the way the behavior or greeting to their belief. Therefore, this process needs a long time period.
In conclusion, I agree with the statement that studying foodways is a good option to comprehend a culture. Nevertheless, I believe that it is not the best way and if a person wants to gain deeply of cultural values of a region, he needs to study more about the general lifestyle, general views, general art patterns and combine these things to have a comprehension of cultural values that region holds.

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Average: 6.2 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, however, if, nevertheless, really, so, still, therefore, thus, for instance, in addition, in conclusion, kind of, on the other hand

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.5258426966 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 12.4196629213 48% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 14.8657303371 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 24.0 11.3162921348 212% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 48.0 33.0505617978 145% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 75.0 58.6224719101 128% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 12.9106741573 46% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2474.0 2235.4752809 111% => OK
No of words: 520.0 442.535393258 118% => OK
Chars per words: 4.75769230769 5.05705443957 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.77530192783 4.55969084622 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.54704550968 2.79657885939 91% => OK
Unique words: 250.0 215.323595506 116% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.480769230769 0.4932671777 97% => OK
syllable_count: 767.7 704.065955056 109% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 6.24550561798 160% => OK
Article: 1.0 4.99550561798 20% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 20.2370786517 84% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 30.0 23.0359550562 130% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 81.316205393 60.3974514979 135% => OK
Chars per sentence: 145.529411765 118.986275619 122% => OK
Words per sentence: 30.5882352941 23.4991977007 130% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.23529411765 5.21951772744 158% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 7.80617977528 77% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 5.13820224719 19% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.83258426966 103% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.210801248144 0.243740707755 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0738831594849 0.0831039109588 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.10907223778 0.0758088955206 144% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.130154023308 0.150359130593 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.106289067447 0.0667264976115 159% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.3 14.1392134831 115% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.49 48.8420337079 101% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 12.1743820225 113% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.92 12.1639044944 90% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.5 8.38706741573 101% => OK
difficult_words: 111.0 100.480337079 110% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 11.8971910112 118% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.0 11.2143820225 125% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.7820224719 119% => 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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