Civilized Population In Brave New World

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The appropriation of Black music by groups with historically greater social power in the United States reflects of the way that “civilized” population in Brave New World uses the Native American reservations for entertainment purposes, while conveniently ignoring the deplorable living conditions in which this community exists. The reservation’s portrayal as a structured zoo furthers as Bernard and Lenina not only view the savages an inhuman, but view their culture as entrainment. From the moment Lenin and Bernard reach the reservation their pilot prepares the pair for the show they are bound to encounter as he points to a younger savage: “Everything they do is funny," (Huxley 106). Huxley’s characters, “regard the quotidian life of the ‘savages’

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