The rule is: When you are another mans land, you play by another mans rules. Works for me.
I've done a fair amount of traveling in my day.I've visited First World countries as well as Third World nations.I've even visited one or two Fourth World nations.Particularly when I'm traveling in Third/Fourth World nations I'm far more respectful of authorities than I am of authorities in my homeland.For example,once,I had an AK47 pointed at me by a Tanzanian soldier because I had taken a picture of the army truck in which he was riding.He demanded my camera,I complied,and he proceeded to throw it to the ground smashing it into 100 pieces and taking the roll of film that had fallen out of it.What was I gonna do??? I certainly never went back,that's for sure.
My last few overseas I went with a diplomatic passport. Didn’t help much in Kenya or Saudi Arabia, but it sure did in Havana.