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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Blue blood easterners in the business and professional classes  would think it exceptionally gauche to remove shoes and walk around a house in barefeet or in sweaty socks.[/quote]

Maybe I’m not blue blood or east coast enough, but I don’t wear shoes inside my own house but not because of hygiene, just comfort.  I don’t expect guests to remove their shoes and don’t find it appropriate unless they’re close friends and it’s a less formal gathering.  If it’s raining or sloppy outside, I think people do generally take their shoes off if it’s easy.  But it’s definitely not a hard and fast rule.

I get Asian cultures that have been doing this for centuries insisting on it.  But people not from a culture like this just come off as pretentious and/or irrationally afraid of dirt when they insist that guests remove their shoes.  [/quote]

Irrational?

No, irrational is wearing your footwear outside where you're [b]stepping on feces, vomit, spit, human waste, animal waste, pollutants, dirty, mud, grime, insects,[/b] and then still thinking there is no problem wearing that in your house.  So nasty.  That's what's really irrational. [/quote]

What kind of hellhole do you live in?[/quote]

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