Festival of Ideas 2012 Picture credit: Kamal Anwar, Creative Commons.
We are so used to seeing the world through essentially Western eyes for the last 200 years, but it will not be essentially Western any more." - —Martin Jacques The West is in rapid decline and it had better wake up to a world which is no longer seen through its eyes, a leading thinker will tell this year's Cambridge Festival of Ideas. Martin Jacques, author of When China Rules the World, will tell a debate on the rise of the BRICs countries on Saturday that the rise of China and countries such as India and Brazil will transform the lives of people in the West. He says China's impact on the West is mainly economic for now. "Over time, though, it will become political, social, cultural and linguistic. It will be all enveloping." That includes how we work. Jacques says: "People in the West will find they have to work harder.
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