Brave New World: All Things Are Relative
Beginning of paper
The dictionary defines civilized as "advanced in social customs, art,
and science". The keyword here is social customs. A persons idea of what
is civilized is relative to his culture. Through out the history of man,
one can see many changes in customs, and customs is what defines our idea
of wh ....
Middle of paper
.... elongate the head. Even today in Japan,
tradition says that women are supposed to walk ten feet behind their
husbands. This may seem like demeaning women to us but who are we to judge
when the United States has had a long history of racial and ethnic
discrimination and only now are we changing.
The society in Brave New World has not lost their values but has
simple changed their idea of what is right and wrong. After all, how much
have we changed in the past 600 years. Six-hundred y ....
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