Many people today prefer to try another country's food instead of local food.
Do the advantages of this trend outweigh the disadvantages for the environment and economy?
Due to being exposed to multicultural societies, people have a tendency to switch their interests from local cuisines to the foreign ones. In my opinion, this phenomenon can lead to several negative impacts that overshadow the benefits of it.
Firstly, having a majority of people who spend more interest in foreign foods than the traditional ones, a country is likely to lose its cultural dishes. To be more specific, many local businesses serving cultural foods can lose their profits because of the lack of customers. Therefore, many of them may have to shut down, as a result, the popularity of traditional foods can be decreased gradually. Due to this, the local cuisines would less likely be preserved, so that the next generations may not have chances to taste these foods. According to a tourism report, 20% of traditional dishes of the Philippine have been lost, since the introduction of fast foods in this country. Secondly, tourism can be negatively impacted as a result of the shortage of cultural identities caused by the loss of local foods. To explain this, when tourists have to choose places for their vacations, traditional cuisine comes as a competitive edge of tourism. Therefore, many of them will not come to countries that are poor in food.
However, some people would argue that people switch to foreign cuisines that could attract investment of international companies to set up their food stores in a country. Fairly saying, it is true that having numerous potential customers, many companies would pour their money to build their branches. By hiring new employees to work, these organizations also help to resolve the unemployment problem of a country. However, it deteriorates the economy while labor forces depend heavily on international resources coming from overseas. As a result, it would easily face a crisis, when suddenly these organizations pull their resources back. This happened in VietNam in 2010 when the majority of workers lost their jobs due to a food chain company announced to retreat from VietNam, which causes a huge burden for the authorities to deal with this rising unemployment.
In conclusion, the preferences of people who spend on foreign foods are larger than that of local food will cause more damages to cultural identities and tourism, although minor benefits could be reaped from this.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 13.1623246493 84% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 7.85571142285 178% => OK
Conjunction : 1.0 10.4138276553 10% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 13.0 7.30460921844 178% => OK
Pronoun: 33.0 24.0651302605 137% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 62.0 41.998997996 148% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 8.3376753507 48% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1974.0 1615.20841683 122% => OK
No of words: 383.0 315.596192385 121% => OK
Chars per words: 5.15404699739 5.12529762239 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.42384287591 4.20363070211 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.80768824003 2.80592935109 100% => OK
Unique words: 203.0 176.041082164 115% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.530026109661 0.561755894193 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 612.9 506.74238477 121% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 4.0 2.52805611222 158% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 2.10420841683 333% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.76152304609 147% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 16.0721442886 106% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 20.2975951904 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 36.7190775679 49.4020404114 74% => OK
Chars per sentence: 116.117647059 106.682146367 109% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.5294117647 20.7667163134 108% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.82352941176 7.06120827912 111% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.67935871743 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 3.9879759519 251% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 3.4128256513 29% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.218007507378 0.244688304435 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0756043877545 0.084324248473 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0552806064084 0.0667982634062 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.139656665287 0.151304729494 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0552590894635 0.056905535591 97% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.1 13.0946893788 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 50.2224549098 98% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.3001002004 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.89 12.4159519038 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.93 8.58950901804 104% => OK
difficult_words: 102.0 78.4519038076 130% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 9.78957915832 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.1190380762 107% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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