The West once ruled more than half the world. The religion it exported is still followed by a third of mankind. Above all, the way people live - or aspire to live - is unmistakably an invention of the West. All over the world, more and more human beings eat a Western diet, wear Western clothes and live in Western housing... But are we living through the beginning of the end of the West's ascendancy?
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