"A person from one culture has no right to judge the actions or values of a
person from a different culture
Virtually every person throughout human history has been required to look at different cultures of
the world through his or her own cultural paradigm. It is practically impossible to separate one's
cultural upbringing from an individual's true identity to allow for a perfectly subjective outlook on a
culture different from one's own. Based on the assumption that all cultures should be considered
truly equal, no person from one culture should have the right to judge the actions or values of a
person from a different culture. However, there may be basic human rights that should not be
violated that could allow an individual to at least judge some of the actions and/or values of an
individual from another culture.
Cultural imperialism has been a factor in human civilization probably since time began. Stronger
cultures have either converted or assimilated weaker cultures from the time when man still roamed
the earth in nomadic tribes. Darwin's theory of evolution could probably applied to the human
species' various cultures, as "survival of the fittest" certainly seems to describe the development of
early cultures in particular. Natural selection allowed those early tribes to either learn and grow or
fail to learn and die off as a culture. In the beginning, it seems likely that the cultural traditions that
allowed human beings to survive in their environments the best were probably the ones that were
kept, regardless of what other cultures thought of them or what traditions those other cultures were
practicing themselves. A low population density probably kept most cultures from even coming into
contact with one another.
As mankind developed and became more advanced, it is also likely that the cultural traditions that
did not necessarily mean the difference between survival and death began to develop. Different
regions began to produce different cultures depending upon their local conditions, their
environment and the technologies available to them. As populations increased and travel
technologies improved, cultures began to interact. The idea of ethnocentricity, the belief that one's
own cultural values, beliefs and traditions, etc. are superior to others, would naturally have led
people to view other cultures as inferior, even though they most likely were merely different.
Obviously just being different does not make a culture inferior just as it does not make another
culture superior.
It is difficult to determine what aspects of human behavior could be considered to be superior to
others. It might be helpful to start with what might seem to be a simple question: What is the
difference between right and wrong? But such a seemingly simple question again comes back to
the problem of ethnocentricity and cultural bias - whose standards are to be used to determine this
apparently simple question? Right or wrong even within a single culture is almost never a purely
black and white issue, and that issue only becomes infinitely more complex when different cultures
are compared.
There are probably some cultural values that are common enough among different societies that a
judgment might be made by one culture of another. The killing of innocent men, women and
children by whatever means and for whatever reason would seem to be a universally deplored
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offense. After that, the actions of a culture seem to move up the scale towards a gray area rather
than being a purely black and white, right or wrong issue. Most people would agree that torture
and rape are wrong, yet both are tolerated in many cultures. Again we must ask the question,
whose values do we use to judge a culture's actions and values?
The right of an individual from one culture to judge the actions of another culture is very much
open to debate. Some basic human rights would seem to be required of all cultures, but in many
that is not the case. Until such a day as the world's population truly becomes one culture and each
culture is entirely assimilated into the other, an answer to the question of who is to judge can
probably never be answered.
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 36.0 19.5258426966 184% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 12.4196629213 129% => OK
Conjunction : 29.0 14.8657303371 195% => OK
Relative clauses : 20.0 11.3162921348 177% => OK
Pronoun: 35.0 33.0505617978 106% => OK
Preposition: 88.0 58.6224719101 150% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 12.9106741573 124% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3540.0 2235.4752809 158% => OK
No of words: 670.0 442.535393258 151% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.28358208955 5.05705443957 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.08766726615 4.55969084622 112% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.70279093449 2.79657885939 97% => OK
Unique words: 313.0 215.323595506 145% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.467164179104 0.4932671777 95% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 1105.2 704.065955056 157% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 10.0 4.99550561798 200% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 7.0 3.10617977528 225% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 5.0 1.77640449438 281% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 28.0 20.2370786517 138% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 23.0359550562 100% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.3641316756 60.3974514979 78% => OK
Chars per sentence: 126.428571429 118.986275619 106% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.9285714286 23.4991977007 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.42857142857 5.21951772744 66% => OK
Paragraphs: 44.0 4.97078651685 885% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 32.0 7.80617977528 410% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 10.2758426966 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 5.13820224719 195% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.83258426966 103% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.47060135619 0.243740707755 193% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.142964620903 0.0831039109588 172% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.128192355948 0.0758088955206 169% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.117757647675 0.150359130593 78% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.117167096901 0.0667264976115 176% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.4 14.1392134831 109% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 48.8420337079 99% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.1743820225 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.64 12.1639044944 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.15 8.38706741573 97% => OK
difficult_words: 143.0 100.480337079 142% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 11.8971910112 118% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.2143820225 100% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.7820224719 119% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Write the essay in 30 minutes.
Maximum six paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.