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Originally Posted by WingsToDiscovery
No, but the fact that the idea of simply wearing shoes in A home is barbaric to them is something I don't agree with. Japan historically tends to have a lot of arrogance with high culture.
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Barbaric? Arrogant? I think your words are little extreme here.
In the West we don't tend to sit on the floor. Our butts and hands are always 3 feet above the floor... Therefore there isn't a need to take off shoes.
However if you have tatami mats on your floor, where you sit, sleep, place your hands, etc. The last thing you want is any more dirt that is necessary getting into your tatami mats.
Makes perfect sense to me, and I know more people than not that move back from Japan and maintain that custom (yours truly included).