CHAPTER ANALYSIS

Chapter Analysis

Chapter Analysis

I begun off composing for Blogcritics with my own critical investigation of Thomas Friedman's The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century. It has been over a year and a half since I composed that reconsider and in that interim, Friedman's chapter has organized to be on the New York Times Bestseller List for most of the time, and more spectacularly, organized to deal about two million copies. Those numbers don't take away from the detail that Friedman's chapter is profoundly flawed, and riven with factual and argumentative inaccuracies.

Ronald Aronica and Mtetwa Ramdoo have endeavored to set the record directly with their blistering critique of Thomas Friedman in their new chapter, The World is Flat? A Critical Analysis of Thomas L. Friedman's New York Times Bestseller. Their chapter may not be full of Friedmanesque anecdotes, or the kind of bulletin plainspeak that Mr. Friedman offers. Nor is it anointed by the catchy names Mr. Friedman is so proficient at approaching up with, for example "Lexus and the Olive Tree" and "The World is Flat (Friedman 2005)." What this new chapter does offer, although, is a profoundly persuading, encyclopedic, richly sustained, step-by-step dismantling of each of Friedman's arguments.

According to Aronica and Ramdoo, Friedman's dream of the globalize world is a profoundly skewed account of globalization, often obsessed with the thriving multinational companies of India, the teeming engineers, and the "level" playing field. Not to mention the preoccupations with the limitless possibilities for earnings for persons who are smart or select to invest in schooling, all the unmitigated fascination with gadgetry, and unbridled self-assurance in technology.

Even a familiarity with the heritage is missing, only rearing up its head in the Middle East to let you in on the detail that its only the in turn around heritage that's retaining the Arab civilization back from the magnificent wealth on the flat world (Frank Kris 2008). There are no losers in the flat world, only persons experiencing a time lag in glimpsing their wealth arrive their way, for the international underclass will be adept to teach their children better and they will finally be adept to get better occupations and better pay. But as the authors astutely issue out, there is furthermore a huge international underclass whose assets are being pillaged and leeched ruthlessly by international companies, departing them with little or not anything to advance with.

The chapter dissects ...