It is often said 'when is Rome, do as the Romans do'. Do you think people should adapt and accept the culture of the country they are visit? do you think it is possible to learn a culture without learning the language?
People believe that it is important to follow what locals do when they are in a foreign land. In this essay, I will state why I completely agree with this belief and why I think it is, of course, possible to learn a culture without learning the local language.
There are people who argue that visitors from other countries should have freedom of choice and shouldn’t be expected to follow the local culture. But in many places, if we don’t follow the local culture, our acts might be considered very offensive by locals. For instance, in India, cows are worshipped as Gods while in many other countries beef is consumed as a part of daily meals. When a person from one of these countries asks for beef in Indian restaurants, they might hurt the emotions of people around them. Another example of this would be if we use the left hand for giving or dealing with money in many Asian countries.
Another reason why it is good to act in accordance with the local culture is that, in certain countries, laws are based on cultural acts. For example, it is mandatory to wear an ’Abaya’ in certain Islamic countries. Failing to do so may result in fines or punishments based on the law, even for tourists.
Even though it is a fact that understanding the language gives you a deeper understanding of a culture, I believe it is very much possible to learn a culture without having to learn a language. Thanks to technology, there are so many online videos on basic cultural aspects of a region and the reason behind it. There are also translator applications in mobile phones that can instantly translate between different languages as people speak. This will help in interacting with others and understanding the sentiments of people in the place we visit, even without knowing the language.
In conclusion, even though people are more forgiving of a foreigner’s unintentional offensive behaviour, it is important for anyone visiting a foreign land to follow their culture so as to respect their feelings. Whereas, it is not mandatory to learn a language to learn the culture for the aforementioned reasons.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 9, column 181, Rule ID: SO_AS_TO[1]
Message: Use simply 'to'
Suggestion: to
... a foreign land to follow their culture so as to respect their feelings. Whereas, it is ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, may, so, whereas, while, as to, for example, for instance, i think, in conclusion, of course
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 13.1623246493 152% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 7.85571142285 102% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 10.4138276553 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 7.30460921844 110% => OK
Pronoun: 33.0 24.0651302605 137% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 54.0 41.998997996 129% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 8.3376753507 24% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1760.0 1615.20841683 109% => OK
No of words: 363.0 315.596192385 115% => OK
Chars per words: 4.84848484848 5.12529762239 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.3649236973 4.20363070211 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.78282460882 2.80592935109 99% => OK
Unique words: 186.0 176.041082164 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.512396694215 0.561755894193 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 549.9 506.74238477 109% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 5.43587174349 147% => OK
Article: 0.0 2.52805611222 0% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0721442886 100% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 20.2975951904 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 35.2876018419 49.4020404114 71% => OK
Chars per sentence: 110.0 106.682146367 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.6875 20.7667163134 109% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.6875 7.06120827912 95% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.67935871743 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 3.4128256513 59% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.267497463296 0.244688304435 109% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0797186831008 0.084324248473 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0682285519544 0.0667982634062 102% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.146945043506 0.151304729494 97% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0714130353061 0.056905535591 125% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.8 13.0946893788 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 50.2224549098 115% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.3001002004 95% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.15 12.4159519038 90% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.03 8.58950901804 93% => OK
difficult_words: 76.0 78.4519038076 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 9.78957915832 107% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.1190380762 107% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => 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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