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

Irrational is expecting to be completely 100% clean all the time. Right now I'm confident your kitchen and bathroom and beds and staircase railings are covered with germs and dried snot and follicle hair. If you have kids, enough said.

Agree the idea that you are being cleaner by never wearing shoes indoor is psychological, not reality. It's like people still hanging on to their COVID masks. It's an act of self-deception, tricking yourself into thinking you're being safer when in reality it doesn't do anything because the real world isn't a climate controlled science lab. You do it because it makes you feel better. [/quote]

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