Countries are becoming more and more similar because people are able to buy the same products anywhere in the world. Do you think this is positive or negative development?

Globalization is enabling us to purchase identical goods all around the globe. This development can be perceived as beneficial for consumers, however it undoubtedly diminishes cultural diversity and impacts local ways of live.

Iconic brands, like Coca Cola or McDonalds, are omnipresent, and it is hard to deny that their products please the tastes of consumers everywhere they appear. This ability to meet the needs of the consumers is what turns some companies into multinational giants, and enables them to expand globally. Besides satisfying consumer needs, large corporations can usually do it with a lower costs compared to their local counterparts. Economy of scale is on their side, and they can transfer some of these benefits to consumers, through lower prices. As a result, relative abundance of goods, and easy access to vide range of services is no longer the privilege of rich nations only.

However, by adopting similar habits, people from various nations are living more alike. Western lifestyle is spreading with the expansion of western corporations into new markets. The whole world is becoming increasingly westernized, and local cultures, with their customs, beliefs and traditions, are sliding into oblivion.

Furthermore, we are not just consumer, but producers as well, and what is consumed affects what, and how we produce. In this context, globalization unavoidably leads to eradication of some local business and, with them, many jobs and a part of a local cultural heritage disappear as well.

Another issue is the growing power of the multinationals. Their influence can sometimes exceed that of the national governments. This have been the case in the developing nations for a long time. However, with the rise of globalization, big business have managed to gain more power even in the most developed countries.

In conclusion, my opinion is that global expansion of trade and commerce should be perceived as a positive force. Still, critiques of globalization should not be disregarded as a populist and nativist gibberish. Many people are suffering negative effects of this process, and their voices must be heard in order to prosper further, without jeopardizing our identities.

Votes
Average: 8.9 (1 vote)

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, but, furthermore, however, if, so, still, well, in conclusion, as a result

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 13.1623246493 160% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 7.85571142285 89% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 10.4138276553 154% => OK
Relative clauses : 3.0 7.30460921844 41% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 27.0 24.0651302605 112% => OK
Preposition: 49.0 41.998997996 117% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.3376753507 96% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1887.0 1615.20841683 117% => OK
No of words: 350.0 315.596192385 111% => OK
Chars per words: 5.39142857143 5.12529762239 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.32530772707 4.20363070211 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.09217445451 2.80592935109 110% => OK
Unique words: 213.0 176.041082164 121% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.608571428571 0.561755894193 108% => OK
syllable_count: 600.3 506.74238477 118% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 9.0 0.809619238477 1112% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 10.0 4.76152304609 210% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 16.0721442886 112% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.2975951904 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.5532515018 49.4020404114 96% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.833333333 106.682146367 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.4444444444 20.7667163134 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.94444444444 7.06120827912 70% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 5.01903807615 120% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.67935871743 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 3.4128256513 147% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.130361096653 0.244688304435 53% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0351811309784 0.084324248473 42% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0406553969199 0.0667982634062 61% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0650658441133 0.151304729494 43% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0233495382327 0.056905535591 41% => 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: 13.7 13.0946893788 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 50.2224549098 87% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.3001002004 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.98 12.4159519038 113% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.81 8.58950901804 114% => OK
difficult_words: 116.0 78.4519038076 148% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.5 9.78957915832 128% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.1190380762 95% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 10.7795591182 130% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 89.8876404494 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 8.0 Out of 9
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