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Recently, I was recommended by Eco to read the Thomas Friedman’s best seller, the world is flat, which had send shock waves through our round world. Although it has been sold more than 1.5 million copies and a lot of people raved about it, I still wonder whether he is still the reporter in the invasion of Iraq and the author of the book, From Beirut to Jerusalem. In his flat world book, Friedman used the metaphorical title to catch reader’s attention and to explain his observation about the effects of technology worldwide. He wanted to describe his experience of the internet, outsourcing, offshoring, efficiency supply chain, etc. as the third globalization. He attempted to create a vision which global population views this global landscape, but what he saw is the world flatted by the U.S., the google, and Wal-Mart market. He advocated many new forms of job had boom in the country like India, China, etc., such as phone centers in India, software-designing in China. It seems that Americans face big challenges in globalization, but essentially the U.S. is still the center of the world and others countries just stay around it. Not until the final chapter, he did not mention the most Indians and Chinese still live in poverty. He never mentions the gap between the rich and the poor is widening. Most people on the earth can’t plug and play in his flat world. Looking the world by the American prospective, Friedman’s opinions about globalization is the one most non-global.
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