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Brave New World: All Things Are Relative - College Essays

Brave New World: All Things Are Relative

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 what is
civilized. The word civilized is one of the most relative concepts.

Time and distance are what have shaped our customs for thousands of years.
If we look back throughout history we can see many customs that may seem odd, or
even barbaric, to us but were everyday events to these ancient people. For
example, the Aztec conducted sacrifices, to their Gods, in which they torn out
their ...

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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 years ago in England, we killed
people for conducting scientific experiments and believed this was against the
teachings of the church. The society in Brave New World is a mirror to our own
when we view the past. If a person from the present were to see the sacrifices
and eating of the human flesh by the Aztec Indians, that person would see it as
barbaric in contrast to his own culture. Isn't it true that what we view as
barbaric or uncivilized is always in comparison to own. Doesn't it stand to
reason that in a society without families, they would view monogamy as
uncivilized? This society has been shaped by hundreds of years and will
continue to change in the years to come.

Many of the ...

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