On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 10:08:48 -0700, sf > wrote:

>On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 09:49:37 -0600, Janet Bostwick
> wrote:
>
>> It may
>> have to do with the demeanor of the patron. There is just one foreign
>> lady at a big box store, she appears severe, but maybe she is not that
>> comfortable with English.
>
>If she's from Eastern Europe, hubby and I attribute it to the Soviet
>block mentality. We have Eastern Europeans here ("Russian", probably
>Ukraine). You see them learn to smile and how to interact with the
>public the American Way over time. Chinese are the same way. Go into
>an Asian market that caters mainly to immigrant Asians and the
>checkers don't smile, they're all business. It doesn't matter who
>you are, everyone is treated the same. Pay and get out, no idle
>chatter.

Somewhere between Turkey, Pakistan and maybe parts of Russia. She
wears a babushka or similar.
Janet US