I'm from Portugal and I've lived in the US (not Oregon).
Maybe related, maybe not, but I've noticed that people in the US seem to have a chronic distrust for the police, government, or generally any authority figure. Do you agree? In Portugal if you're asked to go talk to police/gov/drug counseling/etc, you show up because that's what you're supposed to do.
"Government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem."
That's a very famous quote by one of our presidents. Like all other American pathologies that have festered since I was a child, I assume it will get worse before it gets worse.
Maybe related, maybe not, but I've noticed that people in the US seem to have a chronic distrust for the police, government, or generally any authority figure. Do you agree? In Portugal if you're asked to go talk to police/gov/drug counseling/etc, you show up because that's what you're supposed to do.