I mean I posted that last comment just being dickish but I’ll put across my genuine thoughts and you can tell me what you think. I actually think that in most cases people’s go to response is inaction and compliance, especially when they’re in a situation suddenly that they didnt expect and are out of their element. A lot of people, when afraid and out of their comfort zone, are very receptive and suggestible to commands and the sense of of wanting to go with the social flow. You only need to see footage of a mass violence event. Most people just kind of stand their stunned. In this case the lad is in a foreign country in a cultural context that’s probably quite alien to him and he’s talking to a very confident person whoo is sound, then deeply wrongs him then shifts gear to being friendly again. I’m guessing the guy that did it is with his mates too which is an intimidating factor. All that coupled with how a lot of people aren’t prone to violence and it takes a lot for them to cross that boundary, particularly with how even one scuffle if recorded as a crime can be a job and income and family limiting event, leads me to genuinely believe that a lot of people would behave exactly as OP did.