Asking as a Romanian, I’m genuinely curious. In my almost 32 years of life, I’ve never had any experiences with police / courts and either have the people around me. Here the philosophy is you avoid the police / court system like the plague and deal with problems interpersonally. The less the government / government agencies in your life, the best. But Americans seem to be the complete opposite: “lawsuit waiting to happen”, “sue them”, “call the police”, “contact X governmental agency”, etc. these are all things I see online. I just don’t understand why you’d want all of that in your life, it’s like inviting trouble + waste of time and money.
This comment really doesn’t help your case. The race is notable because minorities in the U.S. have not engaged in this sort of behavior against us. I imagine it’s because they’re more used to the law being antagonistic against them, or because they come from other countries like OP where the law isn’t traditionally threatened in such a frivolous manner. I’m calling out a very specific kind of American, which I think anyone whose worked customer service in the U.S. knows very well.