The traditional life style of local people in developing countries is attracting and increasing the number of tourists to the countries which has the effect of preventing local people changing to modern ways. To what extent do you agree or disagree?
Recent years have witnessed a marked interest in international tourism and the traditional lifestyles of people in the developing countries are acting as magnets to the tourists. However, I disagree that this is deterring the local people to change their customs and traditions and adopt modern ways of life. A number of arguments support my opinion.
The most convincing argument to support this view is that the local people that come in contact with these tourists may develop a sort of copying behaviour, as they want to live and behave in the same way. This is because many tourists come from societies with different consumption patterns and lifestyles which may seem more attractive to the locals especially in the less developed countries. To add to it, tourism can force the local people to alter their cultures such as religious rituals and festivals to conform to tourist expectations which may take them away from their traditional lifestyles.
Furthermore, tourists want souvenirs, arts, crafts, and cultural things, and in many tourist destinations, craftsmen have responded to the growing demand, and have made changes in design of their products to bring them more in line with the new customers' tastes. Another important reason why local people are not interested in sticking to their traditional lifestyles is that they feel they are being exploited to attract tourism whereas the major chunk of profits goes to those who have the modern lifestyles. This is because, in developing countries, many jobs occupied by local people in the tourist industry are at a lower level, such as housemaids, waiters, gardeners and other practical work, while higher-paying and more prestigious managerial jobs go to foreigners or urbanized nationals.
A final reason to disagree with the given statement is that most tourists just want a glimpse of new things and are mainly looking for familiar things in unfamiliar surroundings such as fast food outlets and well known hotel chains. When such places are made for the tourists, the local people also use them and eventually a transition to the modern lifestyle occurs.
To summarise, I disagree with the view that tourism is motivating people to retain their culture and tradition. In fact tourism thrusts traditional communities into the modern world, threatening their distinct lifestyles and cultural products.
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'furthermore', 'however', 'if', 'look', 'may', 'so', 'well', 'whereas', 'while', 'in fact', 'sort of', 'such as', 'in the same way']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.248780487805 0.247107183377 101% => OK
Verbs: 0.163414634146 0.155533422707 105% => OK
Adjectives: 0.121951219512 0.0946595960268 129% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0390243902439 0.0501214627716 78% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0414634146341 0.0437548338989 95% => OK
Prepositions: 0.107317073171 0.122226691241 88% => OK
Participles: 0.0439024390244 0.0403226058552 109% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.81418320479 2.80594681477 100% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0487804878049 0.0326793684256 149% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.00163938923432 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.0853658536585 0.0861772015684 99% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.00975609756098 0.021408717616 46% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0146341463415 0.011925033212 123% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2375.0 1933.35771543 123% => OK
No of words: 378.0 316.048096192 120% => OK
Chars per words: 6.28306878307 6.12580529183 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.40933352052 4.20517956788 105% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.396825396825 0.374742101984 106% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.320105820106 0.28420135186 113% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.227513227513 0.203846283523 112% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.166666666667 0.137316102897 121% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.81418320479 2.80594681477 100% => OK
Unique words: 201.0 176.037074148 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.531746031746 0.56093040696 95% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Word variations: 58.6862277221 60.7387585426 97% => OK
How many sentences: 13.0 16.0891783567 81% => OK
Sentence length: 29.0769230769 20.7743622355 140% => OK
Sentence length SD: 66.5476649927 49.517814964 134% => OK
Chars per sentence: 182.692307692 127.492653851 143% => OK
Words per sentence: 29.0769230769 20.7743622355 140% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.07692307692 0.814263465372 132% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38877755511 114% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 3.99599198397 0% => OK
Readability: 61.0875050875 49.1944974215 124% => OK
Elegance: 1.64 1.69124875643 97% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.55637097052 0.332605444948 167% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.118677791859 0.102741220458 116% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0451982960713 0.0668466124924 68% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.645275920565 0.534860350844 121% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.119204647327 0.148594505496 80% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.270182248514 0.134430193775 201% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0890237831512 0.0742795772207 120% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.403865152846 0.324371583561 125% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0952514969483 0.0638462369009 149% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.399274966578 0.228012699653 175% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0969254972001 0.058150111329 167% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.68436873747 104% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 3.41683366733 29% => OK
Positive topic words: 8.0 5.90881763527 135% => OK
Negative topic words: 3.0 2.5751503006 116% => OK
Neutral topic words: 1.0 1.9629258517 51% => OK
Total topic words: 12.0 10.4468937876 115% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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