How about X or Y os Z...etc etc ?
It's just the specific structure of the culture here - hence the response.
How about a simple thing as jumping the queue in the UK and the response it gets, vs the way that is not such a trigger in other countries ?
It was just a bad bad specific cultural trigger event.
Do you go out you way to bare your feet at people in Thailand in the disrespectful way every day...why not, it has absolutely no meaning or effect to/on you ?