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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yikes!I would leave if someone said I had to take my shoes off at a formal party. That is incredibly rude and presumptuous. Hard no for me. And I wouldn't want to be friends with anyone that controlling about their OCD. Several of you clearly have OCD issues.[/quote]

Dont go to Japan i guess. [/quote]

Or South Asia. [/quote]

Into Eastern Europe, Russia, Sweden, parts of Africa,  Central Asia, nor East Asia. [/quote]

It’s about doing what is culturally polite in the country you are in. In the US it is rude to insist people remove their shoes at a holiday party. [/quote]

Who says? The US is a barely born country founded by immigrants less than 300 years ago. A quarter of the US is either first or second generation. “Don’t ask people to take off their shoes at holiday parties” is not a cultural norm. If it were, there wouldn’t be so much disagreement here.[/quote]

Absolutely it is a cultural norm. The fact that the DC area has many newer immigrants coming from countries that remove shoes does not change that general US norm. [/quote]

Shoes on is YOUR norm around the particular ethnic/cultural groups that you know. We live in upper NW DC and most of our neighbors have  a shoes off household. There is no such thing as a "general" US norm. It all depends on where you live and whether or not you have a diverse group of friends, family, neighbors, and colleagues. 
We are not "newer" immigrants, we are Chinese American, 4th generation in the US, third generation in DC, and we have a shoes off household. Shoes off is one of several cultural American norms. Do not equate American with White, European-descendant or Black. American is whomever happens to be in the US--and that can be Asian, White, Black, etc.[/quote]

Most people I know take off shoes in their own home.  I'm white and we are a no shoes house.  We don't expect others to but appreciate it.  It keeps the house much cleaner.[/quote]

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