To people's different perspective the world can be viewed to them as round or flat. The author of The World Is Flat, published by Farrar, Strauss and Girony, Thomas Friedman simply believes the world is flat. In chapter one of this book, he travels across the entire globe to discover how the world is flat to him.
In the book the World Is Flat, Friedman travels to Bangalore, India, where he finds himself surrounded by advertisements of traditionally American businesses. To his surprise he discovers Indian workers who work for these American businesses, speaking American accents and even taking on American names. Infosys's CEO Nelekani, describes the virtual meetings they can have with people from across the globe. On his journey to Dailin, China he notices this city has become an attractive place for Japanese outsourcing. Friedman here concludes how outsourcing and globalization is occurring in places such as India and China today. In Utah, even the simple task of ordering......
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