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1、post-american world下面是“后美国世界”的英文原版摘要，摘自新闻周刊。还是感觉原版比较简单易懂，有兴趣的话就读读吧！Americans are glum at the moment. No, I mean really glum. In April, a new poll revealed that 81 percent of the American people believe that the country is on the wrong track. In the 25 years that pollsters have asked this question, l
2、ast months response was by far the most negative. Other polls, asking similar questions, found levels of gloom that were even more alarming, often at 30- and 40-year highs. There are reasons to be pessimistica financial panic and looming recession, a seemingly endless war in Iraq, and the ongoing th
3、reat of terrorism. But the facts on the groundunemployment numbers, foreclosure rates, deaths from terror attacksare simply not dire enough to explain the present atmosphere of malaise.American anxiety springs from something much deeper, a sense that large and disruptive forces are coursing through
4、the world. In almost every industry, in every aspect of life, it feels like the patterns of the past are being scrambled. Whirl is king, having driven out Zeus, wrote Aristophanes 2,400 years ago. Andfor the first time in living memorythe United States does not seem to be leading the charge. America
5、ns see that a new world is coming into being, but fear it is one being shaped in distant lands and by foreign people.Look around. The worlds tallest building is in Taipei, and will soon be in Dubai. Its largest publicly traded company is in Beijing. Its biggest refinery is being constructed in India
6、. Its largest passenger airplane is built in Europe. The largest investment fund on the planet is in Abu Dhabi; the biggest movie industry is Bollywood, not Hollywood. Once quintessentially American icons have been usurped by the natives. The largest Ferris wheel is in Singapore. The largest casino
7、is in Macao, which overtook Las Vegas in gambling revenues last year. America no longer dominates even its favorite sport, shopping. The Mall of America in Minnesota once boasted that it was the largest shopping mall in the world. Today it wouldnt make the top ten. In the most recent rankings, only
8、two of the worlds ten richest people are American. These lists are arbitrary and a bit silly, but consider that only ten years ago, the United States would have serenely topped almost every one of these categories.推荐精选These factoids reflect a seismic shift in power and attitudes. It is one that I se
9、nse when I travel around the world. In America, we are still debating the nature and extent of anti-Americanism. One side says that the problem is real and worrying and that we must woo the world back. The other says this is the inevitable price of power and that many of these countries are enviousa
10、nd vaguely Frenchso we can safely ignore their griping. But while we argue over why they hate us, they have moved on, and are now far more interested in other, more dynamic parts of the globe. The world has shifted from anti-Americanism to post-Americanism.I. The End of Pax AmericanaDuring the 1980s
11、, when I would visit Indiawhere I grew upmost Indians were fascinated by the United States. Their interest, I have to confess, was not in the important power players in Washington or the great intellectuals in Cambridge.People would often ask me about Donald Trump. He was the very symbol of the Unit
12、ed Statesbrassy, rich, and modern. He symbolized the feeling that if you wanted to find the biggest and largest anything, you had to look to America. Today, outside of entertainment figures, there is no comparable interest in American personalities. If you wonder why, read Indias newspapers or watch
13、 its television. There are dozens of Indian businessmen who are now wealthier than the Donald. Indians are obsessed by their own vulgar real estate billionaires. And that newfound interest in their own story is being replicated across much of the world.How much? Well, consider this fact. In 2006 and
14、 2007, 124 countries grew their economies at over 4 percent a year. That includes more than 30 countries in Africa. Over the last two decades, lands outside the industrialized West have been growing at rates that were once unthinkable. While there have been booms and busts, the overall trend has bee
15、n unambiguously upward. Antoine van Agtmael, the fund manager who coined the term emerging markets, has identified the 25 companies most likely to be the worlds next great multinationals. His list includes four companies each from Brazil, Mexico, South Korea, and Taiwan; three from India, two from C
16、hina, and one each from Argentina, Chile, Malaysia, and South Africa. This is something much broader than the much-ballyhooed rise of China or even Asia. It is the rise of the restthe rest of the world.推荐精选We are living through the third great power shift in modern history. The first was the rise of the Western world, around the 15th century. It produced the world as we know it nowscience and technology, commerce and capitalism, the ind
