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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m 48, grew up in VA (outside NoVA), come from an educated family and my parents were very formal/proper. I would never remove my shoes in someone’s home unless specifically asked to do so. I would comply, but think it’s weird. It seems a bit uncivilized.[/quote]

This sounds very typical. Families with education who value good manners and are comfortable in situations that call for formal behavior are likely to equate being fully dressed with keeping one's keeping shoes on. They would feel very disrespectful if they were to take off their shoes in any situation outside their own family home.

Probably more common in the US than the posts here would appear to indicate. 
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That’s funny, I’ve lived all over the US and the people who tended to keep shoes on were poor and “uncivilized,” while the wealthier and more educated people were shoes off. I’m assuming previous PPs who find it bizarre/rude/uncivilized have never had any Asian or European friends, then.

For a time I grew up around people like in that show Rosanne, and it was shoes on all the time. I never understood how people could get in bed or stretch out on the couch with shoes on, gross. [/quote]

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