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Why have we in the UK become a nation that apologises rather than preempting results?
I find more and more that people are more likely to just do something likely to cause offence / distress and then apologise rather than thinking about their actions before they do these. Why? It is not difficult to think about what you're going to say / do before you do it. We are way too impulsive as a nation. What does anyone else think?
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Just as America has caught "the British Disease" (over extended, non-sustainable empire), British people may have picked up our self-absorption and hypersensitivity to criticism and being wrong.
Young, healthy people are often impulsive: they're full of energy both internal and artificial.
People don't apologize because they wrongly believe that doing so make them appear weak.
A couple of days ago, I botched an answer to some wag from Y!A! UK/Ireland asking about the laws concerning marriage of first cousins in the UK, comparing it to the fact that it is illegal in >1/3 of American states. Somebody from England sent me an email essentially asking "WTF-who hates who?" I reread my rubbish, realized the tangent I went off on, and promptly apologized to him. An act of liberation. He turned out to be a really nice guy and we cleared the air. It appears that not only Americans are concerned about unflattering national stereotypes.
