Some people believe that visitors to other countries should follow local customs and behavior. Other disagree and think that the host country should welcome cultural differences. Discuss both these views and give your opinion.

Submitted by Shirley on Sat, 02/16/2019 - 23:58

Over the past half century, the rate at which tourism industry has developed continues to accelerate, which has given rise to a heated discussion. While many people believe that the host countries should embrace diverse cultures and values, I opine that visitors should obey local customs and behavior when paying a visit.

The reasons may involve the recognition that in some extreme cases, compliance with locals’ behavior is out of safety considerations. For instance, liberating women from the veil in Muslim countries remains a considerably complex affair, and till now, it is dangerous for women, even foreign women, to hang out without the veil in Iran. Apart from security concerns, following local customs not only shows basic respect to inhabitants, but also enable you to gain a better understanding of local customs and culture by discussing their customs with locals or referring to the Internet, which is also one of the purposes of travelling.

On the other hand, as tourism has become one of the most important industries in many countries, it has offered numerous employments and financial income for the local people. Some people hold the idea, thus, that they are responsible for making guests feel at home. Besides, the past few decades have witnessed the acceleration of globalization, it is reasonable for host countries to welcome cultural differences, or it may limit cultural interaction worldwide.

However, my strong conviction is that cultural exchanges must be based on respecting cultural differences all the time, especially during one’s stay in another country. As there are similar old sayings in many areas-when in Rome, do as the Romans do. It is exactly the tiny, while non-negligible differences that have added up to a colorful world.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, but, however, if, may, so, thus, while, apart from, as to, for instance, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 13.1623246493 68% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 7.85571142285 64% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 10.4138276553 77% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 7.30460921844 151% => OK
Pronoun: 16.0 24.0651302605 66% => OK
Preposition: 38.0 41.998997996 90% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.3376753507 84% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1514.0 1615.20841683 94% => OK
No of words: 284.0 315.596192385 90% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.33098591549 5.12529762239 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.10515524023 4.20363070211 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.93333318305 2.80592935109 105% => OK
Unique words: 181.0 176.041082164 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.637323943662 0.561755894193 113% => OK
syllable_count: 477.0 506.74238477 94% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 5.43587174349 129% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 0.809619238477 371% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 16.0721442886 68% => 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: 25.0 20.2975951904 123% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 59.0513154065 49.4020404114 120% => OK
Chars per sentence: 137.636363636 106.682146367 129% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.8181818182 20.7667163134 124% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.54545454545 7.06120827912 135% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.67935871743 81% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.9879759519 25% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 3.4128256513 88% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.265376512705 0.244688304435 108% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0818114604687 0.084324248473 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0974952429166 0.0667982634062 146% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.141904085444 0.151304729494 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0758256660796 0.056905535591 133% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.6 13.0946893788 127% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 37.64 50.2224549098 75% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 11.3001002004 126% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.93 12.4159519038 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.94 8.58950901804 116% => OK
difficult_words: 91.0 78.4519038076 116% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 9.78957915832 148% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.1190380762 119% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 10.7795591182 139% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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