This cosmopolitanism sought fundamentally to subsume all Latin American nations in one higher unity, with the aspiration to Western modernity as the carrot driving the cultural enterprise. We have to place issues raised by Adelman in this context. This was also true of women, gays, and other peripheral subjects. In the context of the fracture of those ideals, globalization challenges our understanding of how meaning is produced by linking its many voices with the concept of a fluctuating identity. When people are forced to recast the production of meaning, the concept of identity is transformed.
Reality is symbolically codified in a new way.
A more adequate world is recreated that enables individual subjects to reintegrate themselves to their own imaginary horizon. Identity thus appears as a construct exposed to permanent adjustments. A concrete example can very well be seen in Central America. Let's look at Mayans as an example of this issue. However, at the same time, Mayans themselves have moved, by virtue of concrete everyday needs, toward questions of subject-formation that account for both the relationship between globalization and seemingly localized ethnic issues.