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[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? [b]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.[/b] “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]

So let me get this straight. Because this country is generous enough to offer citizenship and residency to a lot of immigrants, native-born Americans have no right to ask that their own cultural norms be respected too.

Is that your true belief? If so, congrats, you may turn me into a xenophobe![/quote]

This country is not “generous enough to offer citizenship and residency to immigrants”. That’s your mistake, right there. This country was FOUNDED by immigrants and every person whether first, second, or nth generation is as American as any other. I am a “native-born American” as are my parents and grandparents, and I don’t recognize keeping on shoes as a cultural norm here. I am saying that the us is different from countries like Iran, China,
India - countries that have existed for millennia and have developed more cultural norms than the us. I’m not saying we don’t have norms, but keeping shoes on isn’t one of them. Given amount of debate on this site and people telling you that their families have been taking off their shoes for generations,
you accept the fact that it’s not a cultural norm. Waiting your turn in a queue is a cultural norm in the US. Tipping after a restaurant meal is a cultural norm in the US. [/quote]

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