What I've observed is that any country that is industrious and controlled by American military will become this over worked rank system culture. They will follow every law and not question it to a T. In Japan, I watched people do everything the police said, and then do what they wanted on the next street over. I also watched traffic get stopped because an older man or woman just crossed the street when they dang well pleased. The most accurate character in the Mulan animation is the grandma.

If math homework was done, students looked at manga, read about cars, and the teacher did nothing. The law was followed, and that was all they required.

If I had to deal with people who thought I was foreign and was scum, I acted dumb until they left. If they tried to speak English to me, I just spoke German or Spanish.

All that said, when my parents moved to Spokane, we were really shocked that the police arrived in force any time we called them. It never happens in other parts of Washington, especially Yakima where they lived previously.