Also, because the US is much more sexually conservative...
How would you feel if America had gotten sailor uniforms
I am against both adopting sailor uniforms as mandates in most US schools, and having any feelings about it. The former, because most US schools are taxpayer funded and any political adoption of this would necessitate subsidizing such uniforms, requiring the gov't to steal more money from taxpayers. Also, because the US is much more sexually conservative than Japan and therefore any "Sailor" uniforms that would have any chance of adoption here would have longer skirts, and probably be rather baggy, being specifically designed to make the women in question less attractive (I have attended schools with other uniforms, and there can be no doubt about the net effect of those uniforms therefore causing a visual negative, to the contrary of John's hopes. The latter, because uniforms that aren't occupationally related are signs of subservience to a collective, and anyone who could develop "Feelings" for someone that are emphasized by rather than in spite of such a uniform has a depraved hierarchy of values, implicitly adopting such subservience as one of their highest values.