[Rebekah]

It’s not just in Southeast Asia. I was born and raised in Canada, and not only my family, but about 90 percent of the other homes I visited were shoes-off, or at least visitors would offer to remove them upon entering. I always thought the shoes-on thing was only something Americans did when I was younger, but now that I live in Australia, where most people seem to wear their shoes in the house, I see that I was incorrect. I am constantly trying to get visitors to remove their shoes! I lived in South Korea for three years, where shoes in the house, and at many restaurants, is an absolute taboo. I found no religious reasoning – only what my mother said: for cleanliness. You walk around all day in your shoes, stepping in what amounts to sewage, chemicals, garbage, whatever, and then wear them around the house, where children may play on the floors, where people sometimes sit down – touching it with their hands, where you drop stuff and then pick it up? No thank you!

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Name : Rebekah, Gender : F, Age : 32, City : Melbourne, State : NA, Country : Australia, Education level : Over 4 Years of College,