You could, but I’d dox myself. It’s not uniquely American, it’s moreso part of people coming from car-centric urban planning to places where bikes are an everyday part of traffic.
It’s also not very well sourced it’s basically on the basis of 40 tourists I interviewed. I was looking for an older study in the field of “the study of how people behave in public space” but I couldn’t remember the name for the field in time and that made it nearly impossible to find the study. It studied how western tourists moved, physically, in India