did / do you

[james]

wear shoes in the house in your country of origin?

[t3hWIT]

Only if I'm just going inside to get something. Otherwise, they come off at the door and go on a rack.

I'm in the US by the way..

[Greji]

wear shoes in the house in your country of origin?

Never owned any. Used to live around Taro's neighborhood, so the only persons who came around wearing shoes were flatland tourists!

[james]

Only if I'm just going inside to get something. Otherwise, they come off at the door and go on a rack.

I'm in the US by the way..

i'll very occasionally do this here if there's no one around, i'm pressed for time and don't feel like making the mental exertion to tie my shoes again. i have to admit though, i feel like i'm breaking the law and being watched when i do!

[AssKissinger]

I met a lot of people in Japan who said that they never wore their shoes in the house back home either but I think that was just kind of way of saying there's nothing special about Japan. In all my life, all around America, north and south to east to west, I never once went to anyone's house where you always left your shoes at the entrance; with one exception, and the people were Korean, from Korea. In fact, asking guests to remove their shoes would look extremely pretentious and would have a trashy effect similar to keeping the sofa wrapped in uncomfortable protective hard plastic. So stop pretending folks.

[American Oyaji]

I've always gone shoeless and living in Japan just reinforced it.

[GomiGirl]

Personally I always took my shoes off when I got home in Australia but I never expected anybody else to do the same thing. There was never anywhere where it was compulsory.

[akatsuka]

I'm from the UK. I never thought anything of being in the house in shoes before I went to japan, then when I came back I tried to not wear shoes in the house, but its hard as theres no where to put them and its not my house... I prefer houses that have a 'shoes-off' policy

[james]

So stop pretending folks.

are you actually being serious with that comment? what's so damn pretentious about not wanting to track in all the shit from the road into the house?

[Doctor Stop]

The Japanese Royal Family wear shoes in their house, I mean in their palatial mansions. That's good enough reason for me to do the same.

[dimwit]

Hey I live in the woods. Tracking deer shit into the abode is considered good form.

[Mr Doricar]

We had a cream coloured carpet in the house that I grew up in so we were always told to take our shoes off. Kinda done it ever since. I wear flip flops around now haha

[Samurai_Jerk]

[quote="AssKissinger"]I met a lot of people in Japan who said that they never wore their shoes in the house back home either but I think that was just kind of way of saying there's nothing special about Japan. In all my life, all around America, north and south to east to west, I never once went to anyone's house where you always left your shoes at the entrance]

I've been to people's houses in the US where they ask people to take off their shoes as a rule. And they weren't always immigrants from Asia either.

[AssKissinger]

Then they were pretentious cunts.

[American Oyaji]

Then they were pretentious cunts.

So judgemental.

In my family we never wore our shoes indoors. We'd go to our rooms, take our shoes off and that was that. Just more comfortable that way. I myself have always hated wearing shoes. I know a LOT of African Americans that don't wear shoes indoors. Many of them indeed ask that shoes be removed at the door. One family had really light cream carpet, another just preferred that dirt from outside not be tracked in.
AK, just because it doesn't fit your paradigm or your experience does not mean it is wrong or strange.

[AssKissinger]

I wouldn't feel so negatively about it if the people were black.

[American Oyaji]

I wouldn't feel so negatively about it if the people were black.

Whys that?

[james]

I wouldn't feel so negatively about it if the people were black.

honestly, i usually hold my tongue, but that is the most fucking asinine thing i've heard anyone say for awhile. seriously, what the fuck are you thinking? what the hell does race have to do with taking off one's shoes?

asians don't wear shoes in the house == ok
black people don't wear shoes in the house == ok
white people don't wear shoes in the house == pretentious

what about my kids? should i have them take one shoe off?

espèce d'idiot..

[FG Lurker]

what about my kids? should i have them take one shoe off?

Yeah, and then make 'em hop in the house.

[AssKissinger]

I'm barefoot right now motherfuckers!

[D.]

It was easy enough to adapt to, because frankly if you've ever steam cleaned carpeting in a home where people wear shoes inside, the water can get be pretty damn disgusting. Now that I have a Japanese wife and a house in the States, we have a general shoes off policy. If that means AK thinks that makes us pretentious, well who gives a rat's ass?

[AssKissinger]

Now that I have a Japanese wife and a house in the States, we have a general shoes off policy.

So do we.

[Adhesive]

I'm in the States and we have a no-shoes-inside-the-house policy, I don't care if people get offended or avoid visiting my home because of it (if I could only be so lucky), I've got a young daughter who crawls around the floor and I'd prefer her to not be rubbing her face in the filth brought in by friends and family.

Fortunately, where we live (sillicon valley), most of our friends and neighbors are either Indian or some other Asian variety, so we don't really have to explain the concept to people.

[maraboutslim]

I was raised by portugese-cherokee mother and irish-english father in rural central california and we never wore shoes in our house. It wasn't uncommon. So other than a few years in college, I've never worn shoes in the house.

[sirwanksalot]

So do we.

Pretentious Cunt

[AssKissinger]

Pretentious Cunt

At least my floor is clean!

[Daz McMullan]

My feet get tired if I wear shoes all the time. It's just that I never realized it until I came to Japan.

[Blah Pete]

Grew up part time in Hawaii and it's shoes off there. Lots of people wear slippers (beach sandals) so it is no big deal.
Also lived in N. California and shoes in the house would depend on the season and mud/cow shiat, etc. The house was large and the floors were cold so in the winter if your shoes were clean it was OK.

[sublight]

Growing up in the Boston area, I wore them inside all the time. Now when I go visit my parents I take them off at the door.

My Mom's commented, "I wish I could get everyone to do that when they come in," but then when we were about to go out, she started yelling at me, "why aren't you ready to go? You don't even have your shoes on! You... oh, right." For her, having your shoes on was the first step of getting ready, while for me it had become the last.

[Oradea]

When I was young we couldnt afford shoes.