Diving in South America

In the BBC today Tim Vickery writes that in South America diving is not as much an issue as it is in other parts of the World:

"From the other side of the Atlantic the English obsession with pouring scorn on the practice of diving looks like an excess of moralism...In South America diving is hardly a talking point. A little bit of gamesmanship is widely accepted."

Hmm. If we agree that there is an excess of moralism and a lack of gamesmanship are we then coming closer to understanding why it is that England's teams don't succeed as often as they should?