The Europeans are worrying over what has brought them to their current impasse and taking a new look at their systems of education and traditional disregard for business. Signs of contempt for the power of the "economic animals" of Asia with their "busy bee" culture do still occasionally emerge, however.
而歐洲人在景氣低迷的長期摧折下，固然亟思振衰起弊之道，甚至重新檢視教育體系、輕商傳統；卻也不時輕蔑包括日本在內的亞洲新興勢力是「經濟動物」，是不知生活品質為何物的「工蜂」文化。