And many people know Americans who were attacked with a knife or gun one day and never return home.
At the end of the day you never know what's going to happen. Even in Cleveland OH, my bike got a flat in a neighborhood full of people of a different ethnicity as me, and as soon as the locals saw I would have a harder time getting away, the predators came out to try to rob me. On the flipside living in rural phillipines, a guy approached me menacingly with 2 machetes and when I just smiled like I was happy to see him, he invited me to eat the dog he was cooking over an open fire. Life is full of surprises, and these kind of things happen everywhere.
Anecdotally I also know a rural villager who was attacked by machete by a fellow villager in this fashion, and when he fought back it never happened again. I'm sure being an outsider was part of the attack, but that may have just been prison rules for the area to see if you'll stand your ground.
At the end of the day you never know what's going to happen. Even in Cleveland OH, my bike got a flat in a neighborhood full of people of a different ethnicity as me, and as soon as the locals saw I would have a harder time getting away, the predators came out to try to rob me. On the flipside living in rural phillipines, a guy approached me menacingly with 2 machetes and when I just smiled like I was happy to see him, he invited me to eat the dog he was cooking over an open fire. Life is full of surprises, and these kind of things happen everywhere.
Anecdotally I also know a rural villager who was attacked by machete by a fellow villager in this fashion, and when he fought back it never happened again. I'm sure being an outsider was part of the attack, but that may have just been prison rules for the area to see if you'll stand your ground.