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Actually, colonizers unconsciously form a certain messages to reconstruct the way of life in colonized countries. We can added some examples of Moroccan fashion schools, such as the Casa Moda Academy started from 2010, and it is the most celebrated and adventurous fashion school on the African continent. Its objective is to prepare students to help the Moroccan textile industry, make the investable shift from subcontracting to developing them to be ready to sell collection for western fashion brands. In addition to the institute de Stylisme ET Modelisme (ISM) which focuses on creativity and innovation. Those schools had opened to train students to produce ateliers that is why the majority were designing European fashion because the few schools …show more content…

Globalization helps in invasion of minds and thoughts this revolution leads to share, that non-western countries are less effective to create and produce a new style and collections. It is important to note that European fashion is interesting to have introduced in non-western countries to learn from its historic. Mrs. Angela Jansen and Mrs. Jenifer Craik are critical thinkers of modern fashion traditions. They presented an overview about Euro and ethnocentricity in fashion discourse. The revolution of modern fashion tradition has its aims to show the important contribution of non-western fashion in historical and socio-cultural development of the world. One of the objectives of the volume is the idea that successful fashion is outside Europe and North America, but for the rest of the world they are just a recent phenomenon of globalization and imitation. Jansen in her book, ”Modern Fashion Traditions” concerned the development of three areas over the Crouse of a century; focusing on the cultural, social, economic changes that shift the way in which fashion production has received. The first generation of fashion designers, working in the 1960-80s including Zhor Sebti, Tamy Tazi and Naima Bennis, emerged from a class of Moroccan designers who lead the revolution of Moroccan fashion. Those designers want to show that woman can be Moroccan and modern simultaneously. They reinvent the design of Moroccan Caftan, they try to make it more prevalent and fashioned. In addition, non-western designers still have the opportunity to sell their designers locally and internationally. Therefore, many countries derived ambition of drawing and designing from American style and European modern fashion. However, it does not mean that non-western countries do not have fertile and innovatory minds to create their local brands. To differentiate

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According to African Perspectives on colonialism, written by A.Adu Boahen in 1987, The elite produced by these colonial educational were with few exceptions people who were alienated from their own society in terms of their dress, outlook, and tastes in food, music,and even dance…. They worshipped European culture… and looked down upon their own( Document 2). Essentially what A.Adu Boahen is saying is that the Africans became more alienated from their culture as the European created the colonial education system. The fact that the creation of the colonial schools caused many Africans to be deprived of their culture and even look down upon it shows that European imperialism was harmful. In The Dual Mandate of British Tropical Africa, Fredrick Lugard states ,We are endeavoring to teach the native races to conduct their own affairs with justice and humanity, and to educate them alike in letters and in industry( Document 9).

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Festivals, beaches, and parties is where cultural appropriation is most commonly found. American people wearing Bindis, Traditional Native American clothing or headdresses, and kente cloth is incredibly common among those with the post colonial mindset. A mindset that American people believe they have the rights to everyone's art and culture. Cultural appropriation, which is seen in a lot of minority communities is caused by the post colonial mindset that American, or Europeans are entitled to other cultures arts, clothing, and religion. The Kente Cloth, made in western Africa exhibits beauty, pride, and culture all in one.

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How would you like to live in a house made of wooden poles, tree, bark and mud? Or make your own clothes and kill your own food? Well this was the norm for all Navajo families. They lived off the land and everything was done in hopes of good blessings, trying to keep the sun gods happy. They killed only select animals and ate ton of wild plants.

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