The world is flat, Essay 6

Jaquelyn Hernandez

10/7/2012

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The world is flat, Essay 6

In Chapter 5-9 of The world is flat by Thomas L. Friedman, Friedman continues to wright about how the world is becoming flatter. By this, Friedman means that everywhere in the world people are gathering the same in formation. People are coming to the same playing field with technology and knowledge. Thus, meaning that the world is becoming flatter do to the fact that everyone is now on the same level. The only great thing that separates people now is language and distance. In these chapters Friedman speaks about Free trade, “new middler” and what CQ+PQ> IQ is and how they relate to how the world is becoming flatter.

Free trade is an organization that allows goods to course freely between nations and countries.  Freed trade helps the world becoming flatter because of the shared objects and culture that is shared because of Free trade. Culture is being extended around the world do to Free trade.  Many counties believe that there should not be any Free trade because the taxes and charges are being abolished. However, I greatly believe that Free trade is good because it levels out the playing field between nations.

However, the skills a ‘new middler’ needs and uses also help flatten the world. A ‘new middler’ needs the skills of communication and a charismatic style around him. This person needs to be able to communicate with a person on those people’s terms and should be able to convince people. He should be able to get companies to collaborate and work together to gain something of equal important.

CQ+PQ>IQ means Curiosity Quotient and Passion Quotient> Intelligence Quotient.  Passion and Curiosity are stronger and more inflectional then natural intelligence. If you are passionate about something then you will do everything you can to becoming better at that something.  Curiosity is important due to the fact that it is what creates inventions or discovers new answers to new/old questions. CQ+PQ>IQ is what defines the way that human s use their natural information or their Curiosity and Passion. It helps level the playing field because we then all realize that the world runs on these emotions.