No, I think it's a valid point - your own cultural experience is one where the I Must Be Right mentality backfired in a big BIG way and so your culture has an element of self-questioning.
My own personal experience is one of self-questioning. I was brought up Christian - Evangelical Christian as I was taught to identify myself, and yet far from the rather rigid, unthinking obedience of American Evangelicalism.
In childhood, one of the core things I learned was that I was a sinner - not in a disgusting, filthy way, just someone who wasn't perfect and who needed Jesus and to work towards perfection.
Sometimes I find it ironic that the same religion/faith provides people who question their Goodness with the reason for examining themselves while providing others with the excuse of blind, unthinking certainty that They Are On The Side Of The Angels.
Re: On "being wrong"
My own personal experience is one of self-questioning. I was brought up Christian - Evangelical Christian as I was taught to identify myself, and yet far from the rather rigid, unthinking obedience of American Evangelicalism.
In childhood, one of the core things I learned was that I was a sinner - not in a disgusting, filthy way, just someone who wasn't perfect and who needed Jesus and to work towards perfection.
Sometimes I find it ironic that the same religion/faith provides people who question their Goodness with the reason for examining themselves while providing others with the excuse of blind, unthinking certainty that They Are On The Side Of The Angels.