Look, the monk touches the girl's head, but she's not angry. Maybe only the old or powerful can touch other young peope
Even though I was born in Cambodia, one of the South East Asian countries, I still feel ‘touching one’s head and receiving anger in return’ is quite a culture shock. Several times, I have touched my friends’ head lightly to show friendship, but they took it for offense.
I heard that for westerners, they do not mind at all touching their friends’ head to show, you know, how much you like them. I saw my Cambodian friend gently touching her Italian friend’s head. He did not mind but smiled and liked it. When I was trying to use a pair of scissors to cut a friend’s hair, he turned away quickly, his facial expression changed and he finally said to me that everybody owns different values. So he really values his head. But for what’s been happening in Cambodia, superstition happens so much so that everybody can get confused with the sacred places.