America is pretty prudish by white-people standards. We're not big on taking our shirts off in public or seeing boobs on the beach. Entire squadrons of moms panic at the idea that their innocent little one might see a penis. We love our privacy.
America is also great at providing public restrooms. Hooray!
These are largely standardized, in fact some ridiculous percent contain piping from Sloan Valve Co, and units from American Standard. They also contain the same door system with the quarter-to-half inch gap on either side. Want to know if a stall is taken? Just peek. For us boys, facing a urinal backed by glossy tiles affords an opportunity to accidentally get a near-mirror-like reflection of our neighbor's junk because the urinal dividers use the same gap-mounted approach.
I suppose we've all become desensitized to this, but I still wonder why the disconnect between our national personality and our national bathroom implementation.
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