Because they do not recognize bitcoin in their area they know only bitcoin scams and you have nothing to do with it. and maybe they fear bitcoin because they might just be foolish and do not pay. Leo Tolstoy paraphrasing in the pre-text perfectly illustrates a situation over legislative Bitcoin regulation in 2017. As it marches through the world, and more merchants accept it, each country decides whether it is on the supporters' or the contradictors' side of this battle.