After reading a couple chapters of this book I have came to the conclusion that it shows you a lot of strong points on how Thomas L Friedman thinks about the world. He explains why it all is happening and how the international system is transforming the world affairs. It also shows you all the things that he said in his book that they would come true and some of those things actually did come true.
This books helps you understand about how globalization is working and why it is happening. It also shows and tells you how the world reacts to it and what the bad and good thing about globalization.

In the first part of the book of the books it explains what the title ‘Lexus’ and ‘’olive tree’’ means. The Lexus stands for half the world emerging from the Cold War and people intent on building a better Lexus, modernizing economies in order to thrive globalization. The olive tree stands for the other half who are still caught up in the fight over who owns which "olive tree."
The Lexus stands for the emerging of new things like 300 new Lexus being built everyday and people are moving on from the Cold War. The Olive tree represents our roots, anchors us, and identifies us. The Olive Tree also represents people fighting over who own what.

That was the main thing in the beginning because it tells you what the title is all about. After that it goes into more detail about other things about globalization. It asks what a golden straightjacket it the golden straightjacket is an economic group where you need to have some standards to be apart from. To be able to join the group you have to adopt or make a progress towards the golden rules. Some of the rules are making the private sector the primary engine of its economic growth, maintaining as close to a balance budget as possible maintaining a low rate of inflation and price stability, shrinking the size of its state bureaucracy, if not a surplus, eliminating and lowering tariffs on imported goods, removing restrictions on foreign investment, getting rid of quotas and domestic monopolies, increasing exports, privatizing state-owned industries and utilities, deregulating capital markets, making its currency convertible, opening its industries. That are just some of the rules you need to follow to be apart from the group.

That for me was one of the most important questions because it shows you how hard it is to have a stable economy. You have to hold on so many rules and other things to get into a group.
When I was getting deeper in the book it was telling other things about the economy, the one that caught my eye was the one about the golden arch theory. Which basically means. Thomas L. Friedman said that no two countries with McDonald's within their borders have ever been in a war since having a McDonald's. It’s because countries that are economically middle class have too much at stake to go to war. I feel that it is a good point because the middle class people have more to worry about then to go to war. They have to work hard for their money so that's what they are focusing on.
At the end of the book it was talking about some other important parts like what is a groundswell and the groundswell is propelled by millions of workers that have been knocked down by globalization. They are the people who will always try and work harder to be a port of the system of globalization, even if they got told no they will try even harder to be a part of it.
I really think that those people are the ones who work the hardest because, they keep trying and trying to be successful and whenever they get knocked down they get right back up and try something different. I think if more people start to do that then we will have a way better economy.
At the end he tells you about Chinese leaders and why they use a different term for globalization, they use modernization because according to the Chinese professor Yuan Ming, Chinese leaders use the term “modernization” rather than “globalization” because China thought the only way to react to American global arrogance was with some arrogance of its own. She says that “the historical lesson is still fresh in Chinese people’s minds that China was forced into the international community in the last century by gunboats- so globalization represents something that China doesn’t pursue but rather something that the West or America is imposing. Modernization, on the other hand, is something we can control.” Friedman comes to the conclusion that being the world’s sole superpower doesn’t guarantee that America will get its way everywhere, but it does guarantee that America will be criticized everywhere.