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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Anyone think this is a socioeconomic difference as well? I know demanding other people remove their shoes is normal in some foreign cultures. In the US, I have found it more common the lower down the economic ladder you go. I've only ever seen this at MC and LC homes. I would be so embarrassed to ask an adult to remove their shoes. I truly can't imagine in what social setting that would be appropriate in the US.[/quote]

You're read this whole thread and can't imagine how it's appropriate?

I was raised by parents who thought shoes inside was an appropriate level of formality. When my friends and I went to each other's houses, we would ask the moms if we could take our shoes off, because shoes on was more polite/formal. In my parents' case, it was partly a generational thing -- for middle class white families in the U.S. in the middle of the 20th century, shoes on was the default -- and partly a class thing -- shoes on meant your day involved being inside as much as you wanted and having paved surfaces to walk on when you were outside. And both my parents grew up with live-in help, so any floorcare was someone else's problem.

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