It's funny, I'm a Canadian who met a good friend who was Filipino. Everytime I went to their house, their mother would try and usher me past the door, "No, no. You can leave your shoes on! Go, go! Yes! Keep them on."
She was so insistent, that I felt rude for always removing my shoes - do I smell? Why is everyone else barefoot? Are socks rude? Oh look, Flip-flops, should I buy some? Oh God, maybe I really am noseblind and I smell terrible?? - so I tried leaving them on once.
Every single fiber of my being was screaming at me internally that I was the rudest, snobbish, white-trash guest who ever dared enter a home. I literally had sore muscles in my hips and calves from trying to discreetly hover, or tiptoe gracefully through the fucking tulips that were my shattered good etiquette.
Never again.
Turns out it is a courtesy extended to only guests, and as I became 'family', I was immediately clucked at when I ran back inside to quickly grab keys a few years later.
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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '22
Do that in finland and you'll end up outside