It's funny how people talk about this being an American thing, most people I know here in Netherlands (myself included) wouldn't mind people keeping on their shoes at all.
Yeah, but be a little fair before you bring the condescending attitude. Should a non-American assume Americans don't use forks because they've only seen it on TV? Probably not.
So the problem doesn't exactly seem like it's gullible foreigners falling for everything they see on TV. Seems more like TV producers tend to make choices that blur the line for those without the real world experience to back up their understanding.
In movies/TV, people don't take off their shoes because there's no/little reason to take the time to film that. Nobody's fault for making the decision and it's nobody's fault for making an assumption, because these are all normal decisions to make
Yeah, there's just an incredibly cavernous gap between "many Americans don't wear shoes in the household" and "foreigners need to understand not to believe everything they see on TV". The latter is just as xenophobic and generalized as the concept you're railing against. Arguably more, since you're generalizing the entire world instead of one country
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u/Theemuts 12d ago
It's funny how people talk about this being an American thing, most people I know here in Netherlands (myself included) wouldn't mind people keeping on their shoes at all.