Globalization; a Meme Travels Around the World to Be Worn By an Illiterate Salesman at the Sunday Bazaar in Lahore

Author(s): Zahra Rao

Type: Photograph

Department: Department of Anthropology

Exhibit no: 55


Zahra Rao
Two salesmen at a bazaar in Lahore, Pakistan, one wearing a Grumpy Cat t shirt.

Used clothes, originally given out as charities in the West to organizations like Salvation Army, are sold in bulk at cheap rates to Pakistani salesmen.

Imagine my shock at seeing a very popular internet meme on this local salesman's body who didn't even know how to use the internet.