ABSTRACT

There is a less simple characterization of globalization, which adds the idea that this allegedly global cultural, economic and political phenomenon is actually always in relation to something that is not the same as it. Globalization is sometimes presented as the process in which cultures are enabled to buy and enjoy Western goods, such as fashion, that were once unavailable to them. Colonialism is related to globalization in that it, too, concerns the domination of one group of people by another group of people. Colonialism is related to globalization in that it, too, is thoroughly political; it concerns the economic and cultural ways in which those colonized cultures resisted and escaped the domination of the Western countries. It is possible to conceive of globalization and potentially globalized fashion as examples of communication.