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08-23-2011, 08:39 AM

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Originally Posted by BrookeJade View Post
I am from Canada and we take off our shoes at the door just like the Japanese and I was wondering maybe if we had got that from the Japanese? Im not a hundred percent sure about whether or not Americans take off their shoes at the door, but from what i've seen, they don't. But like I said I do not know. I don't even notice when I take off my shoes at the door, its second nature to me. I really couldn't imagine walking around all day with shoes on. In most schools where I live, shoes are even taken off in elementary schools. I have noticed this to be simular in Japan.
I think a lot of cultures have a history of taking their shoes off.
Indians, Japanese, Chinese, Koreans, Arabs, some Europeans (I heard.)

So who knows.


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