Studying food ways – what foods people eat and how they produce, acquire, prepare, and consume them – is the best way to gain deep understanding of a culture
Foodways can show how people behave: What kind of food they are eating? Are there any traditions in the way it is prepared? By answering those questions, there can be important information regarding the life style and culture of individuals. However, while foodways can definitely show a peek of a culture, other factors are still fundamental to gain a deep understand of a culture.
Some people could claim that foodways would be the path to deeply connect and understand a culture. For instance, the way citizens in USA consume and prepare food can certainly show some behaviours. Some examples are the fast food culture there, where lunchs are individuals and rapidly prepared. This behaviours can be associated with some trademarks which permeate the american culture, such as individualism and the urge that everything occurs instantly, respectively. With this in mind, we could see a link between foodway and the culture of this country.
There are, however, aspects of a nation that could not be only defined by foodway. Take the extensive use of mobile and social media in nowadays culture from americans. There is an entire ecossystem inside apps that more recent generations use, with people resharing people from each other, posting photos about their lifes and showing their hobies and preferences. This is an extremelly complext aspect of current american culture, with multiple facets and usages. These aspects could be explored by examining these new social relationships in the american culture by getting inside these apps. That sort of complexity and analysis required to attain a deep understanding could not be obtained just by analysing how food is made, consumed and prepared.
Like social media, the extensive use fast media is a complext aspect of the american culture. There are thousands of series and movies accross multiple online platforms which are consumed extensively by the american population. It cannot be ignored how it shapes the culture by adding new references and characters that go and leave in one season. This could be something seen in how food is acquired, with these series being advertized on Mcdonalds or some other food chaim. However, it would not be possible to derive a certain culture just from foodway.
In conclusion, foodway for sure helps and can give insights of a culture, by showing some common traits from a certain population. Still, since culture is multifaceted and extremelly, it can be challenging to actually deeply understand it only from this point of view. There is certainly a necessity to look at other points of view to actually understand it deeply.
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- Studying food ways – what foods people eat and how they produce, acquire, prepare, and consume them – is the best way to gain deep understanding of a culture 50
- Studying food ways – what foods people eat and how they produce, acquire, prepare, and consume them – is the best way to gain deep understanding of a culture 50
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- Studying food ways – what foods people eat and how they produce, acquire, prepare, and consume them – is the best way to gain deep understanding of a culture 50
- The market for the luxury-goods industry is on the decline. Recent reports show that a higher unemployment rate, coupled with consumer fears, has decreased the amount of money the average household spends on both essential and nonessential items, but espe 49
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, however, if, look, regarding, so, still, while, for instance, in conclusion, kind of, sort of, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 27.0 19.5258426966 138% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 12.4196629213 129% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 14.8657303371 121% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.3162921348 80% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 28.0 33.0505617978 85% => OK
Preposition: 56.0 58.6224719101 96% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 12.9106741573 31% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2217.0 2235.4752809 99% => OK
No of words: 427.0 442.535393258 96% => OK
Chars per words: 5.19203747073 5.05705443957 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.54576487731 4.55969084622 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.76737507831 2.79657885939 99% => OK
Unique words: 211.0 215.323595506 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.494145199063 0.4932671777 100% => OK
syllable_count: 708.3 704.065955056 101% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 6.24550561798 144% => OK
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 9.0 4.38483146067 205% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.2370786517 114% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 23.0359550562 78% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 33.4428949281 60.3974514979 55% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 96.3913043478 118.986275619 81% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.5652173913 23.4991977007 79% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.86956521739 5.21951772744 93% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 10.2758426966 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 5.13820224719 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.83258426966 207% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.201009863527 0.243740707755 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0643883501663 0.0831039109588 77% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0687649949628 0.0758088955206 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.125038616002 0.150359130593 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0631341575654 0.0667264976115 95% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.3 14.1392134831 87% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 44.75 48.8420337079 92% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.1743820225 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.82 12.1639044944 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.49 8.38706741573 101% => OK
difficult_words: 107.0 100.480337079 106% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 11.8971910112 55% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.2143820225 82% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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