subject: Productive Countertheorizing Christian Louboutin [print this page] Still, all the theorizing, even when it's wrong, can inspire some productive countertheorizing. When Jacques predicts, for instance, that English as a global language may go the way of French and Latin, fading with its speakers' influence, it is one of the many moments where he seems to have forgotten the existence of India. christian louboutin And what if India's linguistic and cultural bonds with Britain and the United States prove to be important in the world to come?
But the most important countertheory to consider arises from Jacques's notion of unity as China's defining feature. As he notes, China has spent a great deal of its history disunited, waiting sometimes centuries for the next ruler to come along and pull it together again. This does show China's commitment to unity, but it also shows that the effort of governing a China-size China has historically been as much as any government can handle, and too much for many. Christian Louboutin Pumps
For China to conquer the world, the Communist technocrats will need to get past this historical limit - in the face of chronic and worsening drought, possible unrest among the losers in the economic transformation, the poisonous side effects of cramming the entire Industrial Revolution into a few decades, and a troubling surplus of male citizens thanks to the combined effect of sex bias and the one-child policy. These and other problems show no sign of bringing down the Communist regime, but they could certainly keep it busy at home. Christian Louboutin Shoes on sale
In his less dramatic moments, Jacques is simply betting that, in the end, the West will become less important than it has previously been, which it will. He envisions a multipolar world to come, in which the old Euro- American "end of history" is reduced to one in a batch of different ways to be modern, and a vigorous, christian louboutin sale distinctively Chinese version of modernity becomes another.
