Friedman wrote this book as his awakening to globalization while he was asleep. Asleep cheerleading the march to war in the Middle East, and in so doing lost audience since he writes for the NY Times. So he turns back to globalization, and like a child that walks into the middle of a conversation, he's enthusiastic about everything. I read the book not as a review, but rather for interest in cultural developments. This book was like a UPS commercial. Friedman spans the globe and this is all the insight he brings back? What of China's communist government and its people? What of India with Hindus, their cast system, and social equality? How does India and China's business system really work? What about the progress and prospects of the former U.S.S.R block? As a 28 year old sales engineer, Friedman's book is useless in helping me find my way in this world.