Not only a small village in Germany, which would, by itself, already be pretty hard to feel welcomed if you don't speak the language, but a village that has the nuisance of a foreign military base nearby.

The villagers probably have been dealing with all sorts of issues from that, then comes a new American, same as all the old ones, wanting to chit-chat and talk about the weather... Newsflash: Germans might not be into that kind of small talk.