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Summary Of Thomas L. Friedman's Essay The World Is Flat
In his essay “The World is Flat”, Thomas L. Friedman reckons with the belief of flattening world he realizes in the journey to India. Friedman notes that Columbus's sea exploration shortened the distance for Spanish monarchy to grow its wealth and power out of the "source of [India's] untold riches" (633), and discovered "the world was indeed round" (664). Columbus found the hardware source of India's riches which is the free slavery labor and natural resources, and yet Friedman found the software source of India's riches when he "encountered in the real India [which] profoundly shook my faith in [the world is round]" (664). After meeting the Indians who "taken American names" with "great imitations of American accents", "are writing specific
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