Coca-Colanization
n. The spread of Western — especially American — culture throughout the world.
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2002
"Things have changed a lot over the years," said Jean-Philippe Mathy, a native Frenchman who teaches at the University of Illinois and authored "French Resistance: The French-American Culture Wars."

"The youth have been great consumers of American clothes and products, ever since the '70s," Mathy said. The ongoing opposition to "Coca-Colanization," as it has long been called, comes mostly from French cultural elites and "what's left of the radical left," he said.
—Scott Leith, “Coke makes an art of selling in France,” Cox News Service, August 26, 2002
1996
Nongovernmental organizations transcending national boundaries have grown to more than 10,000. The international economy has been globalized some call it the "Coca-Colanization" of the world) through the workings of some 30, 000 multinational corporations.
—J. Martin Rochester, “New world disorder,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Missouri), June 25, 1996
1978 (earliest)
What has been called the creeping Coca-Colanization of the world has been the major U.S. business story since World War II, with international activity now accounting for one-third of all U.S. corporate profits.
—Joanne Omang, “A New Form Of Protectionism,” The Washington Post, July 23, 1978