The Untouchables Thesis

The “Untouchables” is a chapter that comes from Thomas L Friedman’s book “The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century” which was published on April 5, 2005. His book is based on the broad subject of “Globalization” primarily in the 21st century. The main thesis that we can derive from Thomas L Friedman’s Untouchables is evidently “the world is becoming flatter. This has to do with the rise of the middle class. He defines an untouchable as someone who’s work, or job cannot be outsourced as a result of having and developing higher intellectual capabilities and finding new way to be separate ourselves from everyone else. He supports his thesis by naming 10 things that are responsible for the world becoming flatter, problems