I can see how this would make sense, though. If the culture is sensitive to the concept of respect, perhaps it's more likely to perceive what it sees as disrespectful occurrences.

Related tangent: I, no joke, dreamt last night I was at an omakase in Tokyo and told the chef "Kuidaore/食い倒れ" (Osaka kinda colloquialism for ~"Eat yourself into bankruptcy"...kind of like cheers), which offended them for whatever reason, because we weren't in Osaka (which is totally preposterous, to be clear)