The people who were advocating of the western-style food: the people who had lived in foreign before or love western food or always use the microwave oven to cook or the westernized daily meals.
The people who cooking at home seldom: this kind of people have a broad social activities which just have breakfast at home. They will see the kitchen and the dinning room as a beautiful social occasions,so the counter top and the dinner table are a good place for communication.
The housewife or househusband who does not satisfied with the lonely kitchen works. Generally,they will spend more time in the kitchen than other rooms,they will feel unbalance when working alone. If you make an open kitchen,you can communication with your family which was sitting in the living room.
In short, no matter which kind of people,they will have a basic principle:the kitchen is a social place.