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In the past, people used to travel abroad to look for many differences from their country. Nowadays, cities throughout the world are becoming more and more similar. What are the reason? Do the advantages outweigh the disadvantages?

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The
last
 time, many people used to travel
foreign
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country
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countries
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 to look for many differences from their country.
However
,
cities
 on over the world are becoming more and more similar. The writer argues the main reason is global and
to avoid
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 burnout
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outweighs
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outweigh
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outweighs
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 the
drawback
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drawbacks
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 of laziness.
Firstly
, they will
make to
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lose
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the cultural
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cultural
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culture
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about
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of
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 traditional countries. Every city will
was
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be
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 of traditional
difference
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differences
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. If they change
views
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their views
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 in their country,
it
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they
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 will lose
traditionally
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.
Moreover
, it will
e
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be
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very
vey
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very
 boring because
cities
 have
views
 similar and
don’t
 have anything interesting
other
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apply
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. So, we should develop that
also
 preserve traditional
cities
.
Secondly
, if
cities
 were changed
similarly
, they
will
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would
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 do for
tourist
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tourists
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 can’t operate because similar
cities
don’t
anything
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have anything
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 to visit.
Moreover
, many tourist companies can’t have
differently
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different
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 with other countries. They can find no
views
 that they want to visit.
However
, when they were changed
similarly
cities
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to cities
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, tourism
don’t
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didn’t
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 spend money on
to
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apply
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travel from
cities
 to other
cities
.
Moreover
,
cities
 will not be allowed
compete
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to compete
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 and
don’t
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won’t
 have
problem
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a problem
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war
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with war
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.
To sum up
,
problem
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the problem
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change
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changes
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views
at
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in
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cities
 will not have nationally
traditionally
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traditional
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 sightseeing and
writer
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the writer
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 was
drawback
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a drawback
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 with changes
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apply
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this
.

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coherence cohesion
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task achievement
You have identified some relevant points such as the danger to cultural traditions and the potential boredom of similar cities.

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