South East Asia is not the West, its full of crazy stuff. The truth is its not that nice you have to mind your own business.
In 20 years living on the Thai Cambodian border I have seen terrible thing's. From a mentally ill man living chained to a rice house. An 80 year old woman killed by a drunk driver and the court said no compensation because she was old and had no value. A alleged drug dealer executed by the police outside my home. A lad hit by a car ripping his leg off, later died but nothing happened because the driver that hit him was a police officer. A 16 year old having half his face cut off over drugs. A man barbecued my wife's dog, but he was hungry so it was acceptable. One of the most shocking things was when I found out my neighbour was in the khmer rouge, but it turned out he is nice.
I could go on but my point is the place is not that nice, you have to look after yourself and don't look to close or it can leave you feeling sick.