In article <wLQRb.175913$na.286144@attbi_s04>,
Claire Petersky <cpetersky@mouse-potato.com> wrote:
>"Trent Piepho" <tap@venturi.cfr.washington.edu> wrote in message
>news:bv75ft$5gd$1@venturi.cfr.washington.edu...
>> In article <Cz9Rb.151780$I06.1533183@attbi_s01>,
>> Claire Petersky <cpetersky@mouse-potato.com> wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> >I would suggest never living in Japan, where you will find people
>butting
>> >> >into your business and being anal repressives, on a daily basis.
>> >>
>> >> Unlike Seattle, you can wear any kind of hat you want on a bicycle in
>> >Japan.
>> >>
>> >> You were saying something about people butting into other's business?
>> >
>> >I don't do helmet wars.
>> >
>> >But your above comment convinces me you've never lived in Japan.
>>
>> I've been stopped by police multiple times solely for what I was wearing.
>Can
>> anyone living in Japan say the same thing?
>
>How many times have ordinary people stopped you and criticized you for what
>you were wearing?

More often than the police.  

However, there is a significant difference between nosy busybodies complaining
of your choice of dress from their cars, and a nosy busybodies on the county
council using police power to force their fashion style on you.

There is plenty of social pressure to fit in and wear what people think you
should wear here in King county, it's not a trait unique to Japan.  Maybe you
just fit in better here than in Japan?