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> The American abhorrence for admitting fault and/or apologizing is quite mystifying to me. It's really corrosive. I don't accept this premise. Americans don't
by caymanjim 6y ago
> The American abhorrence for admitting fault and/or apologizing is quite mystifying to me. It's really corrosive.
I don't accept this premise. Americans don't have a lot of the cultural baggage that leads to this. If anything, Americans are quick to admit fault and address root causes. We don't have a cultural history of beating around the bush, saving face, deferring to elders who are clearly wrong, etc. Individual exceptions abound, but I think on the whole Americans are ready to admit fault most of the time.
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- trynewideas 6y agoThe US is also a massive country comprised of isolated and distinct subcultures, with a much more dramatic urban/rural split than denser regions. An acceptable apology in one part of the US is a thinly veiled insult in another. Mistake 0 is assuming there's an "American abhorrence" or a tendency held by "Americans on the whole". It's difficult for any American, much less anyone outside of America, to have interacted with each of its distinct, and often wildly divergent, subcultures to find a genuine common thread.