We can learn much more from people whose views we share than from people whose views contradict our own.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

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We can learn much more from people whose views we share than from people whose views contradict our own.

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.

Throughout history, people have assimilated with others with whom they share something in common with. Very often, these people have similar ideas, and do not consider that there exists the possiblility that they are misguided in their beliefs, because they are surrounded by people who share the same beliefs. I am a proponent of the idea that people who interact with people who share different views from them, face a larger learning opportunity because they are more exposed to different ways of thinking.

From the Roman Empire to the Industrial Revolution, the world's greatest moments of progress have been when traditional viewpoints had been challenged. For instance, China's economy struggled when it was closed off to the world, but when it opened itself up to the world, it saw a massive increase in its technological progress. Similarly, the greatest advancements in technology in the recent past have been from multicultural countries. The advancement is an indirect consequence of their multicultural nature. As the best talent from around the world flocks to Silicon Valley, companies in the US keep pushing the boundaries of what modern technology can do. This is a result of the mixing of ideas from different parts of the globe.

In the modern world, the majority of the youth uses social media for several hours per week. This is no mere accident. Companies like Facebook aggressively filter the content that users on their services are exposed to, in order to obtain maximum revenue from advertisements. The best way that they can do this is by showing users content that they believe the users agree with, and thus present the users with a filtered version of reality. Users are tricked into believing that the world shares their views, and are thus complacent. However, when they encounter somebody that does not share the same view as them, their first instinct is to categorize the person with a differing view as stupid. Clearly, this strategy of social media preys on the naivety of many of its users. What this can lead to, is radicalization. People who do not believe in any version of reality except the one they have been so accustomed to, cannot possibly conceive of the idea of a differing viewpoint. Instead of learning from the ideas of others, they would persistently insist that their views are right.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 57, Rule ID: THE_SUPERLATIVE[2]
Message: A determiner is probably missing here: 'worlds the greatest'.
Suggestion: worlds the greatest
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, similarly, so, thus, for instance

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.5258426966 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 12.4196629213 40% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 14.8657303371 27% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 18.0 11.3162921348 159% => OK
Pronoun: 40.0 33.0505617978 121% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 63.0 58.6224719101 107% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 12.9106741573 39% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1958.0 2235.4752809 88% => OK
No of words: 389.0 442.535393258 88% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.03341902314 5.05705443957 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.44106776838 4.55969084622 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.69580147203 2.79657885939 96% => OK
Unique words: 205.0 215.323595506 95% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.526992287918 0.4932671777 107% => OK
syllable_count: 605.7 704.065955056 86% => 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: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.77640449438 225% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.2370786517 94% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 23.0359550562 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 50.5359639911 60.3974514979 84% => OK
Chars per sentence: 103.052631579 118.986275619 87% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.4736842105 23.4991977007 87% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.05263157895 5.21951772744 58% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 3.0 4.97078651685 60% => More paragraphs wanted.
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: 0.157520431019 0.243740707755 65% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.048995325168 0.0831039109588 59% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0437110599584 0.0758088955206 58% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.112589322728 0.150359130593 75% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0435648460639 0.0667264976115 65% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.5 14.1392134831 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 48.8420337079 105% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.1743820225 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.89 12.1639044944 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.05 8.38706741573 108% => OK
difficult_words: 109.0 100.480337079 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 11.8971910112 118% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.2143820225 89% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.7820224719 85% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Minimum four paragraphs wanted.

Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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