Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Bánh mì và rạp xiếc" in Vietnamese language version.
One position is to see that new culture as essentially an ideological incorporation of the working class into capitalism; the new consumerism is simply the old 'bread and circus' approach to domination.
Within modern Britain it is suggested that, through the government's complicity in the sports entertainment industry and high public investment in popular sport and recreation, this strategy of 'bread and circuses' has been resurrected as an ideological support to the state's increasing involvement in the coordination and control of areas of popular culture which were formerly in the realm of civil society.