In five pages the viewpoints of Samuel Huntington and John Tomlinson are incorporated into a discussion of how globalization forces cultures to compete with each other. Two sources are cited in the bibliography.
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globalization centers on exploitation of uneducated, poor people in developing nations. Businesses moving manufacturing, mining or other operations to developing nations venues frequently are castigated as being exploiters of
disadvantaged humanity, seeking only their own financial gain and associated benefit for their shareholders. Critics of globalization refuse to see any benefit at all, which has been the case
in complaints about companies such as Gap and Nike. As Tomlinson (1999) and Huntington (1993) point out, much less attention is given to
cultural issues of globalization than to economic ones. These cultural issues are persistent and growing, however, and will need to be addressed eventually as a mainstream consideration.
Conflicting Views Tomlinsons View Tomlinson promotes and defends benign universalism as an acceptable philosophy to guide the
globalization of business. Tomlinsons position can be defended as being a beneficial one for many nations, using Singapores success of the past 40 years as the leading example.
There are many reasons that developing economies are "developing," rather than already being developed. Singapore stands as an example - and a goal
- of how an impoverished nation can develop its economy to come to be listed by the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) as officially achieving "mature" status.
Singapore began its quest for modernization and sustainable development in 1960. Only 35 years later, it was mature and poised to overtake Great
Britain in per capita GDP; only the Asian currency crisis prevented that from happening at the time. The people of Singapore enjoy a