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Same, I moved to US about a decade ago and this is pretty much the most major cultural shock I still seem to experience. Like I simply cannot fathom how people
by gnulinux 4y ago
Same, I moved to US about a decade ago and this is pretty much the most major cultural shock I still seem to experience. Like I simply cannot fathom how people just walk around their house with shoes, then jump onto their beds/couches, how do you feel confident there is no contamination from outside to your bed or couch?
- bombcar 4y agoTaking shoes off is way way way more common in the frozen north parts where you’re guaranteed to track ice and mush in.
- birdyrooster 4y agoAgree am from north and have friends from south who will visit me in the west and waltz right in with shoes on even on nice rugs like Rick James at Eddie Murphys pad.
- gnulinux 4y agoI live in Boston, MA, this still happens. People wear shoes at home. Not everyone, but seems like a lot of people, perhaps majority, or maybe close to it. Boston is not exactly in the frozen north parts, but it is very much in the north and it's frozen a couple months a year.
- drewcon 4y agoIs there any actual evidence that contamination travels to any meaningful degree? Hasn’t seemed to have any impact that I know of.
- calvinmorrison 4y agoOr that it has any meaningful impact?
- gnulinux 4y agoI suppose this is part of the "culture shock" I'm talking about. It is outside, it's literally the unwashed sidewalk we're talking about. What other "meaningful impact" does one need to be grossed out by this? Would you feel comfortable lying down on a sidewalk and sleeping there, in a major city? Well, that's how I feel like when my friends walk around their houses with shoes, socks then jump on their couch. Their feet touches the couch which, to me, means couch == sidewalk. It's gross. EDIT: Now, to be fair, hygiene is all about culture. I fully admit that. E.g. I seem to have no problem eating things off of a table in restaurants which is likely equally, if not more, unhygienic. But it doesn't bother me. Walking in my home with shoes on completely devastate me. Maybe it's a form of OCD, I don't know.
- holoduke 4y agoQuestion is if its really that bad, the contamination. If you would have the ability to zoom into your hands at at any time you would see colonies of various bacteria all over your hands. Is it really harming you? I agree though that a certain level of hiegene must be present.