Richard Schweder

In Richard Schweder's writing entitled, "Moral Maps, "First World" Conceits, and the New Evangelists", he lays out three prophecies forthcoming to the new world. The first being the prophecy labeled as:
"Prophecy 1: The West Is Best and Will Become Global (or at Least It Should Try to Take Over the World". This prophecy entails that by the ever growing process of globalization Western ideas and aspirations such as "a desire for liberal democracy, the decentralization of power, free enterprise, private property, individual rights, gender equality..."will begin to spread out all around the world, and eventually lead to economic growth in these now globalized nations.

The second prophecy that Schweder describes is titled "Others Will Have a "Piece of the Rock" and Hold On to Their Distinctive Culture Too". This section describes the idea that one does not have to give up their own spiritual values and cultural values if they choose to place value in the material world. This point on a broader scale refers to the belief that areas do not need to "Westernize" in order to be more productive, rather areas such as Africa can hold onto their own customs while at the same time integrating new technology. Thus implying the idea that globalization as well as economic growth would both be possible in this world without having to succumb to the cultural invasion of the Western world.

His third and final prophecy named "A Liberal Ottoman-Style Empire with Two "Castes" (Cosmopolitan Liberals and Local Non-Liberals)" describes a society operated on a "stance of neutrality" in the cultural world. A society he describes as similar to the Ottoman empire in which the world system is designed in such a way that it supports decentralized control in terms of cultural issues, which inevitably leads to promoting local culture expansion. This society will also be maintained by two groups of people whom he dubs as "castes". One group, similar to today's aristocrats, will be from a variety of world nationalities and will represent the world as the new global elites. Their role will be to run the global institutions and value cultural diversity as well as neutrality. The remaining caste in the world will play the role of separating their group from the world as a whole in order to further diversity at the same time. And last but not least,  a person would find themselves moving from one caste to the other, moving from one side of the spectrum (global liberalism) the the other (non-liberalism) several times in the course of their life.