The world is still round, not flat!

Today I read an article, "It's a Flat World, After all" appeared in the book called, Emerging global cultures. Actually, this is a text for my anthropology class. The reason why I read this article is that this is my assignment for that class. In the article, "It's a Flat World, After all", the author, Thomas Friedman mainly talks about today's globalization and insists that world is becoming similar because of spreadout of high technology in the world. Based on his experience, vising india in 2004, he strongly believes that industrializing countries such as India and China will be great threats to the United States in the future because of having ability to use more high technologies by using the internet more than ever before. And he thinks this tendency will ends the era of American emperialism and makes to equalize the power, espeically contol information and high technology among the nations. In short, by his own perspective, massive people from all over the world are strong competitors to each other and we will live so-called, "endless conpetitive era" later in the future.

After I read this article, some disagreements erupted from my mind that is different from Friedman's. I admit that world became similar and more people can access the internet and have oppotunites to develop their own talent by using several kinds of high technologies. However, this is also a story for the part of the world, not the whole world. As an example, even though fast growing industrializing nations such as India and China have drmatically developed during the last decade, there are still tremendous number of poor people there. In fact, the place where Friedman visitied is one of the most fast growing cities in the world. Also, the people whom he met are all either C.E.O.s of certain companies and successful businessmen in their own fields. Therefore, it is unfair to say "World is flat" by having those same kinds of people.
If we look at India and China more in depth, most parts of their lands are full of poor and uneducated people who need help except some rich and educated people who live in a big city such as Bangalore and Shanghai. That is, I do not agree with the point that "World is flat" as he mentioned. Personally, I believe that it is somehow true what he mentioned in the article, but it is not as much as he thinks. We rather have to focus on more about helping poor people who can not be benefitted by today's high civilization and ultimately make them as the most talented people in the world later in the future.