"I'm not going to sleep in that shabby poor shack."
"Also, I should steal those high quality weapons from those children who are clearly impoverished, because I am a horrible human being. America."
One one of the strangers is stealing their items. And it fits the American stereotype known all over the world which the author is apparently using in this chapter to get a rise out of the readers. Let's see if the author is going to trick the readers with a red herring in the next chapter.