此外，过去六个月发生的金融危机也迫使中欧人对那些曾经代表西方道德价值观的国家擦亮了眼睛 — — 这场危机的发生并不是因为碰巧倒霉或某些专业上的失误，而是来源自于道德品质的迷失，这点在美国以及后来的西欧国家尤其严重。
Moreover, after all that has happened in the past six months, Central Europeans can no longer look up to old countries representing the moral values of Western civilization. This crisis was not caused by bad luck or some professional misunderstanding, but by character problems, especially in the United States and later Western Europe.