Calm down and go back to my prior post (#209716). I'm just saying you're more likely to be protested at a major regatta, because you're not as "protected" by your "cultural" disobedience, since you may not know all the players, and may not be able to know whether they will protest if you choose to ignore a rule.
In all cases, the rules are the same, and you theoretically stand an equal chance of being protested. Breaking a rule (especially the PFD rule after being part of this thread) is clearly a conscious choice.
In reality, some times certain rules are ignored by entire groups of people (as you've pointed out plenty of times in this thread), regardless of RRS, Rx, class rules, SIs, or anything else; and you may not get protested.
