【答案解析】Europeans are different from Americans in their view of society in the following ways: 1. Europeans dislike the extremes of wealth and poverty that accompany America's supposed free for-all meritocracy. 2. They do not accept "excessive" job mobility, which breeds insecurity. 3. Europeans are more likely to dislike unfettered market competition and to believe that success is outside their own control. 4. They lack the equivalent of Horatio Alger's myth of rags to riches. In short, in the European view, social stability is desirable, and if a certain amount of inflexibility is needed to underpin it, that is a price worth paying to avoid the restless uncertainties of America's market-driven model.