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Brave New World through the eyes of the reader, and also John, describes their culture as extremely colorful and distinctive. Culture is one of the main issues examined by the postcolonial lens and by focusing on culture it becomes easy to see the otherness of the colonizers from the point of view of the colonized (). What one culture believes and how it behaves is very different from the beliefs and behaviors of another culture. Brave New World displays an otherness in uttering its exotic and erotic ways which, to readers, seem to signify a lack of morals (). All of this has become so depending on their environment: their cultural background, their social context, where they are placed and how society has been built. Comparing people on the reservation, symbolizing our culture and the colonized, and those in the Brave New World, symbolizing the culture of the future and those they colonize, is a method used in the postcolonialist lens to instill a vision of the indigenous. as victims rather than perpetrators (). The way the Brave New World works seems so terrible and inappropriate to us today, but looking back 40-50 years, today's society would have had the same sense of otherness. It's an indication of the direction our society is slowly moving in, but also an extreme case of the direction society is moving to get the point across explicitly. Huxley points out that we are slowly letting aspects of our environment colonize our values ​​today and then shows us what that might look like: a world we don't even recognize or know, a culture that displays otherness to our current culture. The new world is exotic as it is seen as a world of happiness, no one is ever really sad or sick, everything is efficient and convenient, for...... middle of paper ...... family and we become so trapped in our environment, we fail to notice the growing void within us and then, just like that, we lose something that was truly fulfilling. Due to the location and development of this society, a certain otherness or “otherness” has formed to its culture that is very different from what we see today. It's all used as an exaggerated concept of what life is today, and even in the 1930s, when the book was written. Huxley is showing where we have positioned ourselves as a society and how we have set its direction for the future. Aldous Huxley exposes and establishes real connections and hypotheses that with time our own society is becoming more exotic from one generation to the next. We change sexual morality, what we value changes completely, and we begin to see our own otherness in the culture we have so blindly and carelessly shaped.