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[quote=Anonymous][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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Hahaha. Nice try, PP. But I have a PhD, and we have very good manners, thank you. People are constantly complimenting us on our children and how polite and well mannered they are. Most of our friends also have PhDs or at least Masters degrees. (Literally most of them, as in I have trouble thinking of any who don't.) We're also very well travelled and most of our friends are too.

We don't wear shoes inside our house and we offer to remove our shoes by default when entering someone else's home. All of our friends remove shoes by default when we invite them over. They seem to do the same in their own homes.

In our experience, it's the uneducated people who tend to wear shoes in the house.[/quote]

It’s not an “educated” vs “uneducated” thing. I have a Master’s and DH has the terminal degree in his field. We are shoe-wearing people. [/quote]

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