One passage in The World is Flat points this out to me in very stark terms.

在扁平的世界这本书一个章节中，作者毫不掩饰地向我们指出了这一点。

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Thomas L. Friedman, The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century, Picador: 2007.

Thomas L. Friedman，世界是平的：二十一世纪简史， Picador：2007 年。

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The concept was popularised by an American journalist, Thomas Friedman, in his book “The World is Flat”.

这个观点被一个美国记者Thomas Friedman的著作《世界是平的》大为推广。

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But The World Is Flat has an alarming tenor to it, perhaps too severe.

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