The Problems With Individualist Societies

In the Sociological Mindfulness article by Schwalbe, we learn there are various reasons why people aren't particulary aware of how the social world operates. One reason being American individualism. Our culture teaches us to be independent and only look at for ourselves. So basically we should do what we want, when we want if it benefits us and we should not really worry about others. But there's one problem with that. As sociology teaches us, we are all interconnected and each of our indivual actions affect one another, even if it's unintentional. So as it happens, we discussed the differences in behavior in collectivist vs. individualist societies in my AP Psychology class the same day we discussed this article. I learned that the invidividualist societies tend to make the Fundamental Attribution Error far more frequently than people in collectivist societies. This means individualists attribute someone's behavior to their personality rather than considering their circumstances. For example, I come to school late, forget my homework and don't really seem to make an effort that day. Most people in the class will write me off as a lazy person and don't even think that maybe I was up all night dealing with a family emergency and then my car wouldn't start this morning or something like that. In collectivist culture, it's not this way. I thought this could easily relate to the topic of sociological mindfulness because this is just another example of how we are not mindful of why the people around us behave like they do, we just assume the worst. But this comparison did leave me wondering. If the Fundamental Attribution Error is not made as much in collectivist societies does that mean other cultures are more sociologically mindful?