Whether questions

[atabitaraf]

This is the first paragraph of an essay I want to raise some questions about:

"Whether are the tourists supposed to admire the culture of their corresponding host country? Or is it, the other way around, the locals who should be more welcoming to the coming culture?"

As you can see, it is a short introductory paragraph, and I like its style of being provocative by raising a question first. However I doubted: 1. Is it OK to start by making a question in the introduction or it sounds more like a lay text? I hope it does not since I love raising a question at the start. 2. Is it correct to make a 'whether question' and not to include two items? Like saying: whether A or B?

 

[jutfrank]

Your first sentence is ungrammatical and doesn't make sense. Why are you using 'whether'? I think you mean this:

Are tourists supposed to admire the culture of the host country?

You can't make a question with the form 'Whether A or B?'

Your second sentence also has several errors.

 

[emsr2d2]

You can't start a question with "Whether". You can include it in a question. For example:

Can you tell me whether tourists should admire the culture of the country they're visiting or locals should be more welcoming to the culture of the visitors?

 

[Ostap]

"Whether are the tourists supposed to admire assimilate into the culture of their corresponding host country? Or is it the other way around — the locals who should be more welcoming to the coming culture?"

As was said above, "whether" doesn't work in your sentence.

 

[tedmc]

I don't think the host can possibly "assimilate" into the culture of the visitor. One has to live in a culture to assimilate it. "Coming culture" is a weird collocation. "Foreign culture (of the visitors)" perhaps.

 

[Ostap]

I don't think the host can possibly "assimilate" into the culture of the visitor.

It's vice-versa.