April 7

Two Iranian Muslim dolls named Sara and Dara, were made by Masoumeh Rahimi to counteract the negative influence of Barbie and Ken. While looking to their loving parents for guidance, Sara and Dara helped each other solve problems. The creation of Sara and Dara portrays resistance to the cultural values associated with Barbie and Ken. Both Sara and Barbie were manufactured in China. By the 1990s, globalization was known as a process of accelerating engagement among distant peoples. After World War II, global interaction quickened its pace and deepened its impact. What occurred in the second half of the twentieth century is globalization, and it continued into the twenty-first century. This process has been seen by many as practically unstoppable, almost natural, and certainly inevitable. As many states turned inward, investment, international trade, and labor migration dropped sharply. The foundation for postwar globalization was laid by a set of agreements and institutions in 1944 at a conference in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire.