I went to an American High School for a year and noticed that compared to Swedes, Americans tend to really respect authority. I was screamed at by a history tea

I went to an American High School for a year and noticed that compared to Swedes, Americans tend to really respect authority. I was screamed at by a history teacher for calling him "Newell" when I should have said "Mr. Newell" (in Sweden we don't do this, so it's easy to forget). Swedes tend to be naïve when it comes to the government though, but that might be because compared to the USA the rate of corruption in Swedish government is low. But yeah, from experience I've found that Americans demand customer service from the private sector, but never from the public sector. What is up with that?