“The World Is Flat” by Thomas Friedman
Task: Watch the Friedman video and answer these questions briefly.Write your answers in this document. These are your notes for helping you reflect on the content and for later writing your Globalization paper.
What is outsourcing?
Outsourcing is putting work out to someone else that really could be done internally or yourself
Where is Bangalore?
Bangalore is in India
What were the services the Bangalorian wanted to provide Mr. Friedman?
The services the Bangalorian wanted to provide Mr. Friedman were wanting to do his taxes, write his new software, read his xrays, and trace his list luggage.
What did the Nonda Delacati Indian businessman mean by “The global economic playing field is being leveled and you Americans are not ready.”
Nonda Delacati meant The global economic playing field was being flattened as no matter where you are in the world you have an equal opputunity.
How many Japanese-speaking Chinese are running the support, software development, and business processing of major Japanese conglomerates from Dalian city?
How many years of Japanese were the Chinese students near Dalian required to take?
