All of the participants agreed that in Europe the state traditionally filled the role played by private philantropy in the US and by the family in Asia. But we all hastened to add that no model was “pure,” i.e., the family was no longer what it used to be in Asia, the state was playing a bigger role than expected in America, and it was often underperforming in Europe.
我们一致认为，传统上，扮演这个保护者角色的，在欧洲是国家，在美国是私营慈善事业，在亚洲则是家庭。但我们都连忙补充说，没有哪种模式是“纯粹的”，比方说，亚洲的家庭早已不是原先那样，国家在美国所起的作用超出人们的预想，而在欧洲则往往表现得不尽人意。