Cocacolonization refers to the globalization of American culture pushed through popular American products such as the soft-drink brand Coca-Cola. The term is a portmanteau of the name of the multinational soft-drink maker and "colonization".
Coca-Cola advertising in the High Atlas mountains of Morocco
Vintage Coca-Cola vending machines from World War II. They resemble the machines spread out throughout the Pacific front.
The Coca-Cola store in China helping to celebrate the New Year
Colonization is a process of establishing control over foreign territories or peoples for the purpose of exploitation and possibly settlement, setting up coloniality and often colonies, commonly pursued and maintained by colonialism.
A protest sign from the second half of the 20th century criticising U.N. reaction to Soviet colonial expansion
A protest sign from the second half of the 20th century calling on U.N. to abolish Soviet colonialism in the Baltic states
Sign on the JAO government headquarters
Artist conception of astronauts working outside, near a large modular habitat