What items do you miss from your home country, such as food or clothing, that are difficult to find in this country?
Where did you shop in your home country and what was it like?
Were the prices set or did you have to bargain?
Was it easier to get what you wanted then or now?
How is shopping different here from where you used to live?
How are the practices of saving, borrowing, and spending different from your home country and here?
How do people feel about the homeless, beggars, the handicapped, and orphans?
When and how do people in your home country share their money or other resources with people in need?
How do you feel when you see that people buy so much and waste a lot when others in various parts of the world have almost nothing?