It's always the same map
It's always the same map
This is the wedge issue that splits Latin America and East Asia away from the usual consensus
what is meant by "shoes" here? Like, do people in the US walk around their homes in same shoes they wear outside?
Exactly… it wasn’t until I lived on my own in more culturally diverse areas that I realized how gross it is and made my home a shoes off home.
I’ve also moved towards changing my clothes before getting comfortable in my own house. I don’t want outside clothes on my couch. This is a little unrealistic if you host people, but I still operate like that for myself.
Fwiw it’s situationally dependent in my experience. I don’t wear outdoor shoes in my own home, and I don’t know anyone who does. Visiting family or close friends, I probably take my shoes off for most occasions. A social gathering at someone’s house I don’t know well, then shoes definitely on.
Shoes On is not the norm in the UK this map is so fucking wrong lmao.
It's Shoes Off literally everywhere in the country.
Aus and NZ are also wrong on the map lol
they really be evolving fr fr
i grew up disgusting and repulsive, a flea-bitten, mud-eating barbarian without literacy or language, but my direct and amicable exposure to the peoples of western asia and the far east reformed me greatly.
i now use a bidet and take my shoes off in the house.
I have never been in an English house where they didn't tell you to take your shoes off
I also don't know any French people who consider shoes off to be rude. Guessing it's regional. I think England and Northern France also have the type of climate where shoes off is just more practical
I would even say it'd be considered pretty rude to not take your shoes off inside in France
It's definitely not rude to go shoes off in Brazil. While most people keep their shoes on, they'll also default to taking it off when visiting someone they don't know the habits of.
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sure but one sec lemme just wash these chicken thighs I gotta prep dinner
if you leave your shoes on when you walk into my home i'm handing you a mop and broom and putting you to work
From my experience in Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium, this is a terrible map lol. I've never been in a house that asked me to take shoes off in those countries. I usually do because I find it nasty as shit to walk around with shoes and hate when people do at my house (I pretty much only let friends with high shoes/heels during events, because that's something they are actively trying to do to their image). But the fact that those countries aren't blue or green is very suspicious.
yeah, netherlands is fake.
Shoes on is standard in most homes, although I had some classmates who had a shoes-off policy in grade school.
I don't know who made the map, but at least where I'm from in Portugal, growing up I was always told to take my shoes off when entering the house and I rarely see other people not take them off when entering.
Ballarat Cleaning Specialists made the map, apparently.
Ball Rat sounds about right.
Angloids.
With all the green in South and Central America, I'm blaming the Iberians for this.
do they consider flip flops or slippers shoes? that's the only way in which a normal person might wear shoes at home in Brazil, and most people, as somebody else has mentioned here already, default to removing their shoes as soon as they go inside anyone's home - it's not even a class thing, everybody just does it
the closest I get to that is during the coldest days in winter when I might wear a pair of crocs to warm my feet, but that's already highly unusual and I feel incredibly weird doing it
indoor shoes are a different thing, of course you can wear them indoors
shoes on is the norm, but some homes prefer shoes on
lol, better keep those shoes on i guess
USA Australia NZ and Terf Island
the blue option is just anglos continuing the centuries old tradition of not being able to speak their own language
Who are the freaks in Canada, Greenland, South Africa, and Madagascar who wear shoes in the house?
In Canada? Probably American ex-pats tbh. Can't emphasize how little sense shoes on makes like half the year, there's mud and slush everywhere.
i grew up in a apartment complex in a warm wet part of the US with carpets where nobody bothered to take their fucking shoes off. It was infuriating. I now have tile floors and I still can't get people to listen to me and take their damn shoes off but at least I can mop it all up on Sundays.
Just hit them with a "Shoes off or gulag"
shoelag
Interesting point, however there's a typo in the label for blue.
I had no idea there would be so much red. Russia and nearly all of Africa were a surprise to me.
My dumb brain thinks Russia = cold = snow, and snow = dirty/wet shoes and boots, so shoes off.
correct. if you want to do shoes on in a place that gets snow you pretty much have to have house shoes/slippers, which isnt the same as wearing your regular shoes indoors
it makes sense to take shoes off when people are walking on unpaved surfaces more often.
Yeah, this is how you know I'm a red.
Damn, I forgot that comm existed
I take my shoes off at mine and other people’s houses because my toes yearn for freedom
The entire point of Mr. Rodger's Neighborhood is that you should have different shoes for inside and outside jesus christ.
But what do you do for other people's houses? Do you take your inside shoes with you?
I have unironically done this.
Oh I remember when I first learned about Americans having a shoes on norm in their homes.
I've yet to recover from that initial feeling of disgust.
Germany in the good shade of the map???
Proof that immigrants have finally brought civilization to the Teutons along with delicious doner kebab
I'm American and I've never been anywhere where people where shoes on in the house. But I'm from a swamp in the midwest so maybe it's a warm/dry climate thing or maybe a rich-person-with-maid thing?
i hate shoes i hate shoes i hate shoes i hate shoes
I hate shoes
i mean yeah, they're a prison for your feet. they're necessary cos 1) winter and 2) summer, since we done paved the entire world and it burns and 3) broken/pointy trash, so we put up with them.
which is another reason why shoes-on inside is super weird. dont you want to let your feet go free for a bit? no socks, no shoes, just rawdogging the air.
one of the best things about coming home is taking off my socks.
Shoes Off considered rude
I can understand shoes on being a norm for some cultures, but shoes OFF considered rude? Looks like it's just Mediterranean Euros and their former colonies so maybe Latins are super sensitive to feet stank?
That's just how it be sometimes, I walk over to a friends house and realise I forgot my shoes and have to go back and get them, won't be allowed in otherwise.
i like how people say "you walk through piss and shit and wear shoes in the house!"
i can't say im walking through piss and shit very often so that's hilarious. also i have hardwood floors, if i had carpet i'd be more prone to taking them off. if i was just downtown where bums piss, i take those off.
Canada with a surprisingly moderate take for once lmao
Hawaii is deep DEEP red
USA Australia NZ and Terf Island
the blue option is just anglos continuing the centuries old tradition of not being able to speak their own language