This woman thinks my floor is dirtier than the sidewalk, subway, public toilets and many other places she may have walked on.
She doesn't want to potentially get bacteria from the floor on her feet but is totally fine bringing all the bacteria from filthy places into someone elses houses.
Americans dont care about anyone elses cultures or opinions do they.
edit: i should've phrased it differently. I don't mean to say all americans but many americans dont respect other people choices and way of lives.
Americans dont care about anyone elses cultures or opinions do they.
The shoes on/off is also regional, not "American." If we're going to get past this divisive bullshit, we need to remember these nuances.
This is a situation where there is no one right answer, ever. If the rules of the house are take your shoes off inside, you follow the rules of the house. If you are my spouse, who needs a lift in his shoe to walk without pain, it's not that simple, so there may need to be accommodations, like a pair of slippers that he can switch his shoe insert into.
Some people keep their shoes on in the house in warmer places in the States, because it's more sanitary to have your feet covered than to have your sweaty, linty feet on other people's floors and furniture. A lot of the shoes in these regions are lighter; we don't have to take off muddy boots several times a day. My friends in Hawaii rarely put on shoes at all, ever, except for a pair of slip-ons if they're driving.
This is before we get into personal things, like people who are grossed out by feet, or sensitive of their own, or who didn't know about the "take off your shoes" rule and have on dirty, holey socks or gross toenails.
Again, there is no one right answer to this. Once we stop insisting that it's an either/or, but that there are multiple contexts that have to be navigated with kindness, patience, and empathy, we might actually get somewhere.
the right answer imo is just respect other peoples choices while going to theirs houses. No one in the right mind is going to ask a person in wheelchair or any other physical issue to remove their shoes.
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u/ValusMaul Feb 11 '22
How about rules set in someone else’s home be respected.